evolution
Orangutan 'copies human speech'
Posted in Featured, Science on 28th Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller
That "other orangutans seem to be exhibiting equivalent vocal skills shows that Rocky is not a bizarre or abnormal individual"
Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor, a mutation from 6,000-10,000 years ago
Posted in Science on 11th Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller
Scientists have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6,000-10,000 years ago and is the cause of all blue-eyed humans.
Evolution may have moved at a furious pace on a warmer Earth
Posted in Featured, Science on 7th Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller
Early life forms on Earth are likely to have mutated and evolved at much higher rates than they do today.
Life exploded on Earth after the slow rise of oxygen
Posted in Science on 19th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
It took 100 million years for oxygen in the oceans and atmosphere to increase to the level that allowed the explosion of animal life on Earth 600 million years ago.
Compared with other primates, human sleep is short and deep
Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
This unusual sleep pattern may have helped give rise to our powerful minds.