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Rapid Evolution
John Hawks gives a very decent presentation on rapid evolution. Very much worth watching, and this field of study should yield some highly interesting results in the years to come.
Read more…Tapeworms and the disgusting story of scavenging
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/may01/worms0501.htm The information is a few years old, but I happened to come across it today. Based on study of parasites, scientists now believe that humans first became hosts to tapeworms as far back as 1.7 million years ago. Tapeworms grow in two different hosts, an intermediary (always a herbivore) and a final host (always a meat-eater), and they only grow to adult size in the final host. The evidence strongly suggests that humans became final hosts…
Read more…Female breast size
A thread on 30BaD revoked my interest in something I had briefly thought about before, and so I did a teeny tiny search on the topic of female breasts. Why do human females have large breasts when no other primates do? How come we developed those? They don't seem to give any lactation advantages given that gorilla and chimp mothers breastfeed successfully with a far less, erm, prodigious arsenal at their disposal. So I came across the nubility hypothesis. Any thoughts? I'm somewhat doubtful…
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Figs are part of our evolution. In the tropics, figs grow year round. Here I link you to my post on protecting fig trees in a cold climate. You can grow them in pots and keep them indoors during the winter, but since I grow these trees outdoors, I show you in this video how I protect the fig trees: Over wintering protection for Chicago hardy & Brown turkey fig ...
NEW TONY WRIGHT VIDEO SERIES!
If anyone has Netflix you should watch "Your Inner Fish", it is three episodes. Another good documentary series with Neil Degrasse Tyson: Cosmos A Spacetime odyssey --really good graphics too.
A decent discussion on a related topic:
http://www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/appeal-to-read-the-litera...
It's part of my dream to become a specialist in evolutionary neuroscience. Our brains essentially go through millions of years of evolution from the moment we are conceived till the moment they attain 'human' status. We all still have the brain of of our reptilian and mammalian ancestors within our own human brains.
During the Pleistocene era we evolved emotional thinking, and a sense of our own existence, apart from the rest of our environment, a.k.a. consciousness. The cerebral cortex is the most recent development, some consider this to be the place where our 'ego' resides. Others say it's been with us for much longer and is in the amygdala because it houses memory processing and emotional reaction.
Awesome group, thanks!
Peace,
Guava
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