Humans are evolving, as they always have, it’s just too slow for one, two, or several generations to notice. But the things we do now affect how humans will change in the future. What will humans be like a thousand...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/26/What-Will-Humans-Be-Like-In-1000-Years/Research into the history of the plague reveals ho... ...s thought to have occurred relatively recently in evolutionary history, anywhere from 1,500 to 20,000 years ago.... ...ould help reveal the earliest steps in a tortured evolutionary path, and perhaps help pinpoint at what point the... ...andemics. Read...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/07/The-Mutant-Genes-Behind-the-Black-Death/(Photo: Corpse Reviver)Humans alone have chins. Wh... ...e speculated over that question for decades. What evolutionary advantage does the chin offer? Dr. Robert G. Fran... ...mple geometry: As our faces became smaller in our evolution from archaic humans to today -- in fact, our face...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/30/Why-Humans-Evolved-Chins/The classic anthropological hypothesis on why huma... ...stand, with plenty of extra information about how evolutionary science really works. -via Metafilter
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/02/How-to-Apply-an-Evolutionary-Hypothesis-about-Gestation-to-Your-Pregnancy/The following is an article from the Annals of Imp... ...ble Research.Research about, or said to be about, evolutioncompiled by Katherine Lee, Improbable Research staffHuman... ...nis E. Slice, Truls Thorstensen, Katrin Schaefer, Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 33 , 2012, pp. 109&ndash... ...books“Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/31/Evolution-Research-Review/James Krupa teaches evolution for non-biology majors at the University of Kentu... ...because so many of his students were taught that evolution is in direct opposition to Christian belief, and... ...e because my Kentucky daughters were taught about evolution in both parochial...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/30/Defending-Darwin/(Photo: J. Todd Poling)What evolutionary advantage do stripes offer zebras? For a long tim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Why-Do-Zebras-Have-Stripes/AustralopithecusThe conclusions dra... ...into a club effective for striking.If indeed the evolution of our hand proportions were associated with sele... ...t the primary target, the face, to have undergone evolution to better protect it from injury when punched."Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/12/Fist-Fights-Found-to-Have-Shaped-Male-Facial-Structure/The polar bear and the brown bear are rather close... ...ated, and they can still interbreed. In fact, the evolutionary split between the two species is estimated to hav... ...of polar bears are extreme." Instead, the bear's evolution seems to have reworked the heart to survive these... ...fat figure noted ab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/12/What-Makes-a-Polar-Bear/The title sounds like one of Kipling’s “Just So” stories, but this article from theoretical biologist Suzanne Sadedin gives scientific answers, told in plain language that can be funny in places. She in...
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