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Monday, 18 November 2024, 00:17 (12:17 AM) GMT, day 323 of 2024
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• How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution -- The Guardian (07 March 2021)
  
  
  • Dunn, Robb, and Monica Sanchez. 2021. Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
    
    
• Researchers Use IT to Unlock the Mysteries of Human Evolution -- Phys.org (16 August 2016)
  
  
• 'Origins' Card Game Teaches Basics of Human Evolution -- Forbes (12 August 2016)
  
  
• Evolutionary Games of Multiplayer Cooperation on Graphs -- PLoS Computational Biology (11 August 2016)
  
  
• Anthropologist: Let's Stop Failing Our Children on Evolution -- MPR News (28 July 2016)
  
  
• Viruses Revealed to Be a Major Driver of Human Evolution -- Heritage Daily (13 July 2016)
  
  
• An Expert Says He's Found Evidence Humans Are Still Evolving -- Science Alert (13 July 2016)
  
  
• American Creationism Isn’t Going Anywhere – A Life-Size Noah’s Ark Proves It -- Heritage Daily (11 July 2016)
  
  
• Dear Science: Why Aren’t Apes Evolving Into Humans? -- Washington Post (27 June 2016)
  
  
• No Giant Leap for Mankind: Why We’ve Been Looking at Human Evolution in the Wrong Way -- Conversation (14 June 2016)
  
  
• New support for human evolution in grasslands -- ScienceDaily (06 June 2016)
  
  
• Evolution Makes Scientific Sense. So Why Do Many People Reject It? -- Guardian (31 March 2016)
  
  
• How Diet Shaped Human Evolution -- ScienceDaily (29 March 2016)
  
  
• Humans evolved by sharing technology and culture -- ScienceDaily (02 February 2016)
  
  
• Key Moments in Human Evolution Were Shaped by Changing Climate -- New Scientist (16 September 2015)
  
  
• Myth of the ‘Missing Link’ in Evolution Does Science No Favors -- Conversation (16 September 2015)
  
  
• Green Arabia's Key Role in Human Evolution -- BBC News (16 September 2015)
  
  
• Change in Early Human Ancestor Diet Came Earlier Than Thought -- Phys.org (15 September 2015)
  
  
• Shift in human ancestors' diet earlier than previously thought -- ScienceDaily (15 September 2015)
  
  
• 12 Theories of How We Became Human, and Why They’re All Wrong -- National Geographic News (12 September 2015)
  
  
• Human Evolution 101 -- National Geographic News (11 September 2015)
  
  
• How do we know that evolution is really hapening -- BBCEarth (04 August 2015)
  
  
• The Most Momentous Year in the History of Paleoanthropology -- Scientific American (12 June 2015)
  
  
• Vulnerability Made Us Human: How Our Early Ancestors Turned Disability Into Advantage -- University of York (12 June 2015)
  
  
• Even Setting Evolution Aside, Basic Geology Disproves Creationism -- Conversation (28 April 2015)
  
  
• Study Shows Humans Are Evolving Faster Than Previously Thought -- Guardian (25 March 2015)
  
  
• Understanding Faith, Teaching Evolution Not Mutually Exclusive -- EurekAlert (25 February 2015)
  
  
• Scientists Warn: Creationism Is on the Rise in Europe -- ScienceNordic (24 February 2015)
  
  
• Many Americans Reject Evolution, Deny Climate Change and Find GM Food Unsafe, Survey Finds -- Guardian (29 January 2015)
  
  
• Evolution Deniers Believe in 'Smorgasbord' of Science -- LiveScience (29 January 2015)
  
  
• On evolution, a widening political gap, Pew says -- MPRNews (31 December 2013)
  
  
• The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease by Daniel Lieberman – Review -- Guardian (17 October 2013)
  
  
• Modern Humans Still Evolving, and Faster Than Ever -- NPR (27 September 2013)
  
  
• Origins of human throwing unlocked -- BBC News (26 June 2013)
  
  
• Mountain Populations Offer Clues to Human Evolution -- New York Times (30 May 2013)
  
  
• Study Raises Questions About Long-Held Theories of Human Evolution -- Past Horizons (01 February 2013)
  
  
• Muslims Engage in Quest to Understand Evolution -- Guardian (09 January 2013)
  • Muslim thought on evolution takes a step forward -- Guardian (11 January 2013)
    
    
• Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution -- LiveScience (25 December 2012)
  
  
• Fighting may have shaped evolution of human hand -- BBC News (12 December 2012)
  
  
• New study claims humans are evolving to become less intelligent -- Scout Report, November 23, 2012 -- Volume 18, Number 48
  
  
• Civilisation is making humanity less intelligent, study claims -- Telegraph (12 November 2012)
  
  
• Conflict and 'Boom-Bust' Explain Humans' Rapid Evolution -- BBC News (14 September 2012)
  
  
• Religion in Human Evolution -- The Guardian
  • Part 1: The Co-Evolution of Gods and Humanity -- (16 July 2012)
  • Part 2: Faith, Language, Music and Play -- (23 July 2012)
  • Part 3: The Primacy of Ritual Over Language -- (30 July 2012)
  • Part 4: The Role of Worship -- (05 August 2012)
  • Part 5: Group Cohesion and Identity -- (13 August 2012)
    
    
• New findings point to more interesting wrinkles in the story of human evolution -- The Scout Report, August 17, 2012 | Volume 18, Number 33
  
  
• Are We Really Still Evolving? -- Discovery News (02 May 2012)
  
  
• Humans are still evolving, scientists find -- Telegraph (01 May 2012)
  
  
• Tennessee ‘Monkey Bill’ Becomes Law -- Nature (11 April 2012)
  
  
• Evolution Has Given Humans a Huge Advantage Over Most Other Animals: Middle Age -- Washington Post (26 March 2012)
  
  
• Why Screaming Babies Are So Hard to Ignore -- Telegraph (21 January 2012)
  
  
• Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling-- Live Science (20 January 2012)
  
  
• Nicolas Steno: The Saint Who Undermined Creationism -- Christian Science Monitor (11 January 2012)
  • How Nicolas Steno changed the way we see the world, literally -- Christian Science Monitor (11 January 2012)
  • Nicolas Steno Google doodle marks his 374th birth anniversary -- Guardian (10 January 2012)-
    
    
• Thomas Hills: Why Human Intelligence Isn't Evolving Faster -- Guardian (07 January 2012)
  
  
• New Year Brings New Attacks on Evolution in Schools -- Live Science (01 Jauary 2012)