There are human traits that evolved in spite of being survival handicaps. These counterintuitive traits are often called costly traits, or Z...
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We share an ancestor who probably lived no more than 640 years ago
This post is a revised version of a previous post . The original post has been or will be deleted, with the comments preserved. Typically th...
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How come evolution hasn’t made us immortal? Death, like sex, helps animal populations avoid extinction
Genes do not evolve, nor do traits that are coded for our genes. We say that they evolve to facilitate discourse, which is alright. Populati...
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