As opposed to the traditional view of evolution by natural selection, niche selection theory holds that we aren’t passive participants in our fate. Therefore, a new study about changes in our diet and our teeth millions of years ago should not have been surprising. Sometimes, even the experts can miss the forest for the trees… Continue reading The second most underrated and misunderstood evolutionary concept
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Me, my dogs, and our long march together through evolutionary time
As my lovely wife is fond of saying, we and our beloved doggies are thrown together by fate, but I want to go much further back in time than she’s normally thinking to consider what fate had in store up to a hundred million years ago when humans and canines were one species. Since every… Continue reading Me, my dogs, and our long march together through evolutionary time
Humans walked the earth millions of years earlier than we believed and your teeth might be the scales of a fish
A new analysis continues to confirm Charles Darwin’s hypothesis that the first step towards humanity was walking upright, and his thoughts on the matter in Descent of Man still ring true over 150 years later, an incredible feat. Meanwhile, other scientists are finally beginning to solve the riddle of where teeth came from. It’s Darwin’s… Continue reading Humans walked the earth millions of years earlier than we believed and your teeth might be the scales of a fish


