Tag Archive for 'genetic'
Does evolution select for faster evolvers?
Closed Published by n1kk1 January 31st, 2007 in Uncategorized.It’s a mystery why the speed and complexity of evolution appear to increase with time. For example, the fossil record indicates that single-celled life first appeared about 3.5 billion years ago, and it then took about 2.5 billion more years for multi-cellular life to evolve. That leaves just a billion years or so for […]
USATODAY.com - Roots of human family tree are shallow
Closed Published by n1kk1 October 22nd, 2006 in Uncategorized.The Associated Press
Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East Asia — Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He — or she — did nothing more remarkable than be born, live, have children and die.
Yet this was the ancestor of every person now living on Earth — the […]