evolution

6 min read 2023-01-26 04:53:32

Episode 151/152: Lissamphibian Origins

Caecilians, sometimes known as ‘blind worms’, are a lesser-known group of lissamphibians (all living amphibians). Most modern caecilians are all

9 min read 2023-01-23 02:20:00

XiphiacetusGiven their extreme adaptations to a life at sea, it should not be surprising that whales and dolphins have a long evolutionary history.

4 min read 2023-01-18 14:00:46

An anthropologist considers how different the world might be if Neanderthals—and hence, their ways of navigating relationships with the environment

3 min read 2023-01-15 05:43:00

Returning to a favorite theme here, the western frontier as the incubator for American collective identity, have a look at this map of the most

11 min read 2023-01-14 06:22:20

2 min read 2023-01-12 00:17:33

Dear readers: I have been very neglectful of this blog for more than two years, but I have resolved to get back in the swing of things in 2023 as I

4 min read 2023-01-10 04:15:00

Learning has always come naturally to Brandon Ogbunu. When he was a child growing up in Manhattan, his mother, a teacher, instilled in him an

4 min read 2023-01-06 00:00:00

From the tropics to the poles, from the sea surface to hundreds of feet below, the world’s oceans are teeming with one of the tiniest of

4 min read 2023-01-04 13:00:14

An anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why so many people seem practically programmed to love sugar. This article was originally

2 min read 2023-01-03 23:32:29

A recent study has revealed several microprotein-encoding genes that have arisen de novo from non-coding sequences within the human genome. The work,

9 min read 2023-01-03 20:30:03

This article was originally published by Lily at A Lily Bit’s Substack and can be found at The Daily Exposé. Since March 2020, the vast majority

7 min read 2022-12-30 04:26:42

Kingsley L. Dennis, Guest Waking Times ‘As the interpretation of reality by the power structure, ideology is always subordinated ultimately to the

9 min read 2022-12-21 01:15:00

Time travel theories. Are they credible? One idea that has caught people's imagination is that UFOs could be in fact vessels used by evolved humans

7 min read 2022-12-19 21:24:23

Kingsley L. Dennis, Guest Waking Times “Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” ~Idries Shah, The Dermis

1 min read 2022-12-17 10:39:00

There’s a long way to go before the electric car revolution even comes close to the version that currently exists in everybody’s heads. Getting