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An oft heard creationist argument, "if humans evolved from apes, then why are there still apes?"
We share a common ancestor with apes, roughly 6-7 million years ago. We went one way in our evolution, a... View More
We share a common ancestor with apes, roughly 6-7 million years ago. We went one way in our evolution, a... View More
If Humans Evolved from Apes, Why Do Apes Still Exist?
A closer look at human and ape evolution.
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‘We don’t know from which creature humans and chimpanzees evolved’
US paleoanthropologist Tim White, a living legend in his field, has moved to Spain to continue his quest to uncover the distant origins of ‘Homo sapiens’
General statistical model shows that macroevolutionary patterns and processes are consistent with Darwinian gradualism - Nature Communications
’Macroevolution posed difficulties for Darwin and later theorists because species frequently change abruptly, or experience long periods of stasis, both counter to the theory of incremental change or ...
Evolutionary science reveals the hidden benefits of humans’ “dull” penises
Male chimpanzees are much larger than females, and they have a multi-male to multi-female mating system.
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The ‘weirdest wonder’ of evolution had an even weirder cousin, new study finds
Looks like Opabinia wasn’t just a lonely freak of nature, after all.
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A study has found that today’s marine invertebrates have chromosomes with the same ancient structure they inherited from their primitive ancestors more than 600 million years ago, an extreme example o... View More
Reconstructing the chromosomes of the earliest animals on Earth
In marine invertebrates like the sponge, jellyfish and scallop, chromosomes have remained largely the way they were in the earliest common ancestor of all animals
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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.
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Pushing back the timeline for when methane-making archaea evolved on Earth may mean it will be more likely to find them on other planets.
3.42-billion-year-old fossil threads may be the oldest known archaea microbes
The structure and chemistry of these ancient cell-like fossils may hint where Earth’s early inhabitants evolved and how they got their energy.
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#OTD 1859 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology
Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin - Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species: England became quieter and more prosperous in the 1850s, and by mid-decade the professionals were taking over, instituting exams and establi...
