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
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Key moments in humanity’s early and more recent history remain written in our DNA
Two new studies illuminate long standing mysteries in our evolutionary and cultural history. Why were early humans smarter and more adaptable than our Neanderthal cousins even though their brains were about the same size? When and where did the earliest Indo-European languages emerge leading to what about half the world speaks today? DNA is a… Continue reading Key moments in humanity’s early and more recent history remain written in our DNA

