adaptation

For tens of thousands of years, humans ran on bare feet. Then we developed an assortment of specialized shoes, including - particularly since the 1960s - a seemingly limitless variety of running shoes. Despite the perceived advantages of foot protection, some runners in recent years have...

Imagine you're just walking on the street, and you plan to learn more about a huge comic book franchise. Read the comic book first? or watch the new movie adaptation that's out in theaters first?

It'd be so epic if Onani Master Kurosawa got an anime adaptation, but it probably won't because it'd be rated mature

The Ration of Reason is a new science nature and skeptics podcast in which podcaster Matt Johnson and sometimes Samantha Johnson read selected science, nature, or skeptic related blog posts. Today's installment includes one of mine ("The most important human adaptation"): Ep. 4: Ostriches...

Human infants require more care than they should, if we form our expectations based on closely related species (apes, and more generally, Old World simian primates). It has been said that humans are born three months early. This is not accurate. It was thought that our body size predicted a...

Chapter 11 of Futuyma's book, Evolution, Second Edition, is available for free download as a PDF file HERE, courtesy of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) Read the comments on this post... More...

A chapter from a special graphic adaptation of Charles Darwin's Origin, by Rodale Press, is available for free download from the National Center for Science Education. Click here for the PDF. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... More...

Casting, plot changes, the apparent amount of sex (I must have missed the bit in the novel where Heathcliff and Cathy jump eachother's bones!?!) etc. Is anyone else as apprehensive about it as I am?

I know it's some time this fall, but, when exactly? Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks. =)

I know it's some time this fall, but, when exactly? Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks. =)

...opening scene that confuses me.? Ok in the beginning of Farenhight 451 (the 1966 film adaptation) the camera starts to zoom in on the TV antennas on people's houses. I have a theory as to what the director is trying to convey when doing this but what do YOU think the director meant when he...

...has only deleterious effects? You know, sickle cell anemia, that evolutionary adaptation that allowed humans to have resistance to malaria. Is religion an evolutionary adaptation that was once useful to self-aware hominids dealing with a a mystifying, terrifying world? That is now just a...

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