Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species changed the world. (…)
Entries Tagged as 'Natural Selection'
Richard Dawkins: Why Darwin matters
February 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: General · Natural Selection · Rational Thinking
Study Finds Reproductive Edge for Men With Deep Voices
November 29th, 2007 · No Comments
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
A man with a deep voice may have a survival advantage, a better chance of passing on his genes. (…)
Tags: General · Natural Selection
Male deer are born to live fast, die young
September 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
In the September issue of The American Naturalist, Juan Carranza (Biology and Ethology Unit, University of Extremadura, Spain) and Javier Pérez-Barbería (Macaulay Institute, United Kingdom) offer a new explanation for why males of ungulate species subjected to intense competition are born with lower survival expectancies than females. (…)
Tags: General · Natural Selection
CU researchers discover evidence of very recent human adaptation
July 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment
A Cornell study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years, when people began migrating from Africa. (…)
Tags: General · Humans Evolution · Natural Selection
Neutral evolution has helped shape our genome
July 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Johns Hopkins researchers have added to the growing mound of evidence that many of the genetic bits and pieces that drive evolutionary changes do not confer any advantages or disadvantages to humans or other animals. (…)
Tags: General · Humans Evolution · Natural Selection