Although both of these books
deal with human evolution, they have little else in common, beyond each author's ability to skillfully marshal huge quantities of information.
Podcast host Steve Mirsky
talks with human evolution expert Kate Wong about the small group of humans who survived tough times beginning about 195,000 years ago and gave rise to all of us, a story told in the cover article of the August issue of Scientific American, our 165th anniversary edition.
«A major unknown
connected with human evolution in this climatically turbulent environment is the availability of resources, particularly freshwater,» says lead author Dr Mark Cuthbert, holder of a European Community - funded Marie Curie Research Fellowship at UNSW's Connected Waters Initiative and University of Birmingham (UK).
In the classroom, Eric rarely
deals with human evolution, and therefore doesn't feel the conflict between his teachings and his personal beliefs, but if a student questions them, he lets them know they're free to choose.
A maxillary molar from the same site is a pliopithecid (primitive higher primates that are neither apes nor Old World monkeys), so this site in Germany has nothing whatsoever to do
with human evolution.
«Many lines of evidence indicate that Darwinius has nothing at all to do
with human evolution,» says Chris Kirk, associate professor of anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin.
Weidenreich was probably the only anthropologist who ever thought Gigantopithecus had anything to do
with human evolution.
Parker doesn't say, but this sounds like a rehash of the old creationist canard that Dubois eventually decided that the Java Man skullcap was just a giant gibbon and nothing to do
with human evolution.
Yoga deals
with human evolution.