Evolution

The human face is, by far, one of the most complex features that has stumped the scientists in the field of developmental science. The recent debates on human face transplant makes it obvious that…

In a recent set of posts there was a discussion about evolutionary psychology and how it can be used to explain various behaviors.  However, one of the fundamental challenges raised is whether…

Aggression in mating males is a successful reproductive strategy for individuals but a numerical model says it can drive a species to extinction, Evolutionary biologists have long debated whether the…

As a teenager, in the early 1960s, I developed an interest in botany, and in particular ferns and the so-called “fern-allies”.  So, living in the drier South-East of England, I welcomed trips to…

Rice, the eponymous food of Asia, originated in China, and domesticated rice may have first appeared as far back as approximately 9,000 years ago in the Yangtze Valley of China. Previous research…

Cool.

A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says the mosquito branched off the same evolutionary tree as the house fly around 220 million years ago.   Though only a…

While my late Professor Dr Neumann was showing me a museum on the outskirt of a German town , the instruments to fight each other were swords . He commented " The most significant progress makind has…

We are developing past the merely human stage. We couldn’t stop it if we all really wanted to. Techno-future will be. The transhumanism crowd has understood what evolution is all about while many…

While any individual action in a zero-tolerance culture will be evidence of endemic racism, the plain fact is actual racism is below any level in history and dropping fast.   That makes it…