Would something like us have appeared if that asteroid had missed?
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Not so long ago, homo sapiens shared the planet with close relatives, including Neanderthals. Who were they, and what happened to them?
Current extinction rates are 50 times higher than expected background rates, suggesting that another mass extinction event is underway
The origin of the domestic cat, Felis catus, is radically different from the origin stories of our other domestic animals. All of them are deliberate human creations. Cats appear to have domesticated themselves.
A series of energy revolutions—some natural, some technological—built upon one another to give us our rich, diverse biosphere.
Answering three questions can help reveal how the “inheritance of acquired characteristic” fits into modern evolutionary theory.
In 1925 a Tennessee teacher of biology named Thomas Scopes was tried for teaching the theory of evolution. An expert witness at the trial relates how evolution lost in court but won in the eyes of the nation.
It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break. For those most invested in the old-school Darwinian view of the survival of the fittest and violence as virtue, then, the message is clear: Just relax.
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