Neanderthals bid for Human Status

Neanderthals bid for Human Status
NEANDERTHALS as innovators? That the concept seems amusing goes to show how our sister species has become the butt of our jokes. Yet in the Middle Palaeolithic, some 300,000 years ago, innovation is what the Neanderthals were up to. From NewScientist, by Rowan Hooper This period is usually regarded...
February 25th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?
READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no trouble finding it. Recent milestone anniversaries of Darwin’s birth and of the publication of On the Origin of Species have prompted a plethora of material, so authors thinking of adding another volume had better have a good...
February 8th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

Aquatic Apes

Aquatic Apes
Scientists find it easy to explain why we resemble the African apes so closely by pointing out that gorillas, chimpanzees and humans share a common ancestor. It is much harder to explain why we differ from the gorilla and the chimpanzee much more markedly than they differ from one another. Something...
December 2nd, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada

The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 20th November 2009 When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peace-keeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight...
December 1st, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

Avian Einsteins

Avian Einsteins
How do we learn to speak? What is the connection between language and movement? Join a broad and distinguished panel on an exploration of how striking parallels between bird and human brains are providing sharp new insights into how we acquire language and the links between hearing and movement. This...
November 25th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

Neanderthal Brains

Neanderthal Brains
Did we out-breed slow-maturing Neanderthals? by Debora MacKenzie Neanderthal women had just as much trouble in childbirth as modern women – and their kids took just as long to grow up. Christoph Zollikofer and colleagues at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, have done the first three-dimensional...
October 6th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

How Evolution Is Evolving

How Evolution Is Evolving
Patrick Tucker’s article, originally published in the Futurist, reviews a radical new take on man’s evolution. Contrary to popular belief, human evolution in fact has the potential to accelerate rather than slow down in the future. Survival of the fittest is a rule that still applies in our modern...
September 28th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

Cultural Evolution Article 1

Psychedelics could be a powerful tool…They provide treatment options for patients with terminal illnesses, and there are positive indications that they could be beneficial for conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder and eating disorders, which are notoriously difficult to treat effectively....
August 7th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More