Evolution Diary

St. Petersburg court rejects schoolgirl’s suit over Darwinism
ST. PETERSBURG, February 21 (RIA Novosti) - A St. (…)

From http://www.wellingtongrey.net/journal/

COLLEGE STATION — The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found evidence he says could be the final nail in the coffin for the Clovis first model. (…)

How does life survive in the black depths of the ocean? At the surface, sunlight allows green plants to “fix” carbon from the air to build their bodies. (…)

Reporting findings that help shape our understanding of how tool use has evolved among primates, researchers have discovered evidence that chimpanzees, at least under some conditions, are capable of habitually fashioning and using tools to hunt mammalian prey. (…)