claws evolved into nails in some species of animals – this TED animated talk suggests reasons why
October 15, 2019
Binge Drinking is a ‘Sexual Signal’
good news, guys – binge drinking makes us irresistibly attractive to women
scientists say so, so it must be true!
mind you, can’t help wondering why I’ve not been inundated with women beating my door down for a date???
October 10, 2019
Human Origins
‘Today, our closest living relatives are chimpanzees, but extinct hominins are even closer. Where and when did they live?‘ – the American Museum of Natural History has put together an animated timeline addressing this question
August 24, 2019
Human Evolution
interesting summary of how events and advances in science and technology have changed our thinking about human evolution
[p.s., this scientific euphemism for a couple having sex – “living together and exchanging genetic material’ – tickled me!]
December 6, 2018
7 Million Years to this . . .
American Museum of Natural History video summarising current knowledge of past 7 million years of human evolution …
August 23, 2018
Survival of the Slacker
forget ‘survival of the fittest’ – maybe, just maybe, Darwin overlooked the possible evolutionary advantage of being a lazy bugger – http://tinyurl.com/ydz2kvmy
[of course, the slacker strategy only confers an evolutionary advantage if the lazy buggers can summon enough energy to get off their fat arses for a bit of ‘how’s your father’ with the opposite sex and pass on their genes to the next generation]
