Mark Aldenderfer, from the anthropology department at the University of Arizona in Tucson, has just published a paper with several other authors which made the cover of the PNAS. The cover features a gold and turquoise necklace found from excavations of burials in Jiskairumoko, a site near Lake Titicaca in Peru. The significance of this [...]
April 1, 2008
Investigating the ‘cost of complexity’ and the evolution of higher organisms
Amongst people who do not fully understand evolutionary biology, there’s this big misconstrued concept that human evolution has slowed down or even that humans have stopped evolving. If you don’t believe me check out the following links which are in chronological order from 1992 to 2006.
Has Human Evolution Ended?
Is human evolution finally over?
Are we still [...]
