evolutionary science
09/15/2018
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By Rhonda Johansson
Getting enough sleep is a no brainer; even jellyfish rest to regenerate, study finds
As strange as this may sound, scientists still don’t know why we sleep. Certainly there are medical benefits to rest; cells regenerate and the mind is allowed to process new information, among other things. Yet, from an evolutionary point of view, sleeping makes no sense. For one thing, it makes creatures more vulnerable to predators. […]
12/07/2017
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By Michelle Simmons
The evolution of body size: New study explores how height and weight of humans has changed over time
Have you ever wondered why people are of different heights and weights? A new large-scale study attempted to answer this by exploring the evolutionary patterns in humans. For the study, researchers from the University of Cambridge analyzed the height and weight of 311 hominin specimens, the ancestral lineage of which Homo sapiens alone still exist, dating from […]
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