New study kills the myth of ‘Man the Hunter’ - women hunted in nearly 80% of surveyed forager societies.
Information about forager societies (allowing to reinforce the myth) mostly came from ethnographies written by 18th to 20th century white Euro-American men who visited communities and followed the local men around, often paying less attention to whatever women were doing.
Isn’t it incredible to live on the same planet where this magnificent, ancient shark once grew up to 65 ft (20m)? 🦈
The massive megalodon swam Earth’s ocean for millions of years.
Funny how many folks mistakenly believe humans are some kind of pinnacle of #evolution. We literally just arrived a few hundred thousand years ago. #science#history
#Cats first worked their way into human hearts thousands of years ago when the African wildcat realized the evolutionary advantage of sticking close to humans.
And if you have a cat, this comes to no surprise:
They continue to be master manipulators doing things like changing their purrs and “meow” to curry human favor.
Happy birthday to Charles Darwin (1809-1882)! Today is Darwin Day to celebrate his birthday, science and evolution.
“The inhabitants believe that these animals are absolutely deaf; certainly they do not overhear a person walking closely behind them. I was always amused, when overtaking one of these great monsters as it was quietly pacing along, to see how suddenly,
Only 22% of Americans believe humans evolved without God's intervention. 40% are straight-up creationists.
With poll results like these how Americans can hope to solve any complex problems that ail them? Without critical thinking skills in the population how a #democracy can even function?
🧬 7 years ago, scientists proved that they can shave a cell down to its most basic elements, creating a life form with the smallest genome that allows it to grow and divide in lab.
We now have proof that even simplest self-replicating organisms on earth can adapt.
During 300 days of evolution in the lab (the generational equivalent of 40,000 human years), the "minimal cells" regained all the vitality they had sacrificed.
If humans are indeed the most evolved species, why do so many of us suffer from developmental or genetic diseases? Phys.org explains why, unlike our ape ancestors, humans are still paying the price for losing our tails. https://flip.it/DX01o9 #Science#Humans#Biology#Evolution
Hello mastodon!
I'm a German biologist, currently doing a #PhD in Functional Morphology at the University of Antwerp. I study the biomechanics of beak movement in songbirds. 🐦
I'm here to connect with other scientists, share some bits and pieces about my research, and hopefully meet some nice people that are also interested in #animals, #birds, #evolution, #biomechanics, and #opensource software.
I am looking for candidates for 2-years #postdoc position, working on my #ERC project, developing a new statistical method to infer the distribution of the effect sizes of QTL. More information here : https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/225408
Exciting opportunity to work in Paris, in the middle of the Jardin des Plantes, with a great (and humble) supervisor.
An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago. The species Gigantopithecus blacki, which once lived in southern China, represents the largest great ape known to scientists — standing 10 feet tall and weighing up to 650 pounds, APN News reports: https://apnews.com/article/extinct-great-apes-china-8b801514b7e58d08c54c0bbcfbc2f27f
Happy to share the latest manuscript from our lab, in which we propose that eukaryotes evolved from a genomic chimera of Asgard archaea and giant viruses.
"The insect world is full of species of parasitic wasps that spend their infancy eating other insects alive. And for reasons that scientists don’t fully understand, they have repeatedly adopted and tamed wild, disease-causing viruses and turned them into biological weapons. Half a dozen examples already are described, and new research hints at many more."
Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa (theconversation.com)
Genetic evidence reveals a long, previously unknown period of adaptation to cold climates in the history of ancient human migrations across the globe.