How Molecular Clocks Are Refining Human Evolution’s Timeline
Scientists are getting better and better at using DNA to figure out when key evolutionary events happened.
How Molecular Clocks Are Refining Human Evolution’s Timeline
Biology
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Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up?
Many of us have had crooked, ill-fitting teeth at some point in our lives. The reason has a lot to do with what we eat.
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Nature’s Most Creative Copulators
Why have humans taken mammalian sex to a whole new level?
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Do You See What I See?
Cultural groups throughout the world talk about color differently—some don’t even have a word for color. So is color perception a universal human experience or not?
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Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian”?
When a term signifies something that does not exist, we need to examine our use of it.
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The Sexual Allure of Simplicity
Is the return to a simple life a “new” way to advertise our good qualities? An evolutionary perspective says yes.