Car traffic driving micro-evolution?
It’s hard to think that you can evolve to avoid fatal car crashes, but apparently, you can. Well not you, but other creatures like cliff swallows can. Ecologist Charles Brown at […]
Category Archives: Evolution
The evolution of speech
We can trace how different languages have evolved from each other, but what about speech in general? How did we go from animals grunting and screeching at each other to […]
Is the appendix extraneous?
Everyone knows you don’t need your appendix…or do you? Okay, it’s been proven by the millions of people without one that you don’t need it, but they could be missing out […]
Happy birthday, Darwin!
Frankly, I’m a little disappointed Google didn’t post a doodle for the birthday of the father of modern evolution, but I guess we’ll just have to pick up the slack. […]
Scientifically assess your dog’s intelligence
You take your dog to the vet to check his teeth, weight and inner workings of his body. But what about his brain? Biological anthropologist Brain Hare is offering to […]
