A group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania believe ADHD may have been an evolutionary adaptation going back as far as 12,000 years ago. To see if this theory is plausible ...
In each case, evolutionary adaptations allow them to exploit a food niche of ants and termites, but the developments occurred independently.
Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...
Researchers have found that superpowers may be real, but they may not be what we expect. In research collected for her upcoming book Superpowered, author Erika Engelhaupt revealed that scientists ...
and indeed more skillful than the genetic evolution humans can effect with crossbreeding in plants and animals, but how important is it, measured against the adaptations we can devise with our brains?
"Our results show that major initial adaptations are predictable, and as evolution progresses, this ability is lost," he explains. "In other words, the demon exists but is terribly shortsighted." ...
Another evolutionary adaptation: large flaps near the end of the penis that Stancer says “make a seal inside the female” so that tapirs can successfully breed underwater as well as on land.
We hope to establish the degree to which humans have evolved to meet the demands of modern urban living and how those evolutionary adaptations have shaped modern disease vulnerabilities. This will ...
Few subjects in evolutionary theory have posed such intriguing puzzles for so long as the origin of birds. Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light ...
In this major work Lloyd Evans provides an integrated view of the domestication, adaptation, and improvement of crop plants ... ground and has created a whole new way to look at crop plant evolution ...