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    Terrible Evolutionary Psychology Professor Thinks Fat People Shouldn’t Get PhDs

    It's almost impressive how many stupid assumptions NYU evo-psych professor Geoffrey Miller was able to fit into 140 characters, More » Terrible Evolutionary Psychology Professor Thinks Fat People Shouldn’t Get PhDs is a post from Blisstree - Get tips on healthy living, work outs, wellness &...
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    3 evolutionary trends in animals as they become more complex in form?

    Support with examples.
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    is there some evolutionary reason we homo sapiens engage in magical thinking?

    the majority of Americans believe in angels. some believe they were abducted by aliens. What makes people believe in improbable things when all the evidence points to the contrary?
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    A Talk on Darwin, Evolutionary Biology and Race

    Anti-science and creationist rhetoric, coming from organizations like the Discovery Institute, often paints Darwin as handmaiden to the Nazis and founder of racist biology. The eugenics movement of the early twentieth century is uncritically melded with Darwin's writings that touched on race...
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    Tracking The Birth Of An Evolutionary Arms Race Between HIV-Like Viruses And Primate

    Using a combination of evolutionary biology and virology, scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have traced the birth of the ability of some HIV-related viruses to defeat a newly discovered cellular-defense system in primates. The research, led by Michael Emerman, Ph.D., a member...
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    Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds

    Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds is an academic anthology of key writing about bird evolution. There are two main things that distinguish this book: 1) It focuses on the fossil record (rather than genetics); and 2) It is primarily about the evolutionary context of...
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    How far back into the evolutionary tree are homo-sapians sexually compatible?

    I'm aware that homo-sapians could have offspring with homo-neanderthalensis, but could homo-sapians hypothetically have offspring with, say, homo-erectus or even homo-habilis? I know it could never have happened as only h. sapians and h. neanderthalensis ever occupied the same time and...
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    How far back into the evolutionary tree are homo-sapians sexually compatible?

    I'm aware that homo-sapians could have offspring with homo-neanderthalensis, but could homo-sapians hypothetically have offspring with, say, homo-erectus or even homo-habilis? I know it could never have happened as only h. sapians and h. neanderthalensis ever occupied the same time and...
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    Since Atheist are rational and evolutionary Sapiens, did Homos first appear

    in East Africa along with Apes? Some of us know that, Carbon 40 Dating has established the Olduvai Gorge location in East Africa as the birthplace of the first Homo Sapiens that evolved from an encounter with Space Aliens and Native Apes. This, multi cultural collision of Gorillas and Space...
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    ATheists, why aren't you blaming evolutionary for homo "phobia"?

    I'm an atheist by the way. I'm just not an atheist homoists Phobias aren't rooted in disgust but homo "phobia" is. Also, homo "phobia" has nothing to do with fear. All phobias are rooted in fear. There's only one explanation.....Homo "phobia" is really not a phobia. Study shows homo...
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    Is Homo Sapiens just another evolutionary dead end?

    Notable only as a species for the spectacularly short time it will exist on the planet...
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    Describe the evolutionary trend for increasing organismal complexity?

    I'm having a lot of trouble with this question for my biology class. We were studying cells, so the trend should;d be described on a cellular level. Please help if you can. :)
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    If it takes thousands of years to see the evolutionary process, how do you

    know its happening? Do a few bone fragments or a skull the shape of a man's head prove evolution? Or maybe a specie which looks like something else but never changes from looking like something else? Or maybe an extinct specie which didn't make it because of it's circumstances. The Dodo...
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    Creationists, Other Humans, on Divergent Evolutionary Paths

    Creationists have often argued that they did not come from apes, a view usually ridiculed by the scientific community. Recent evidence, however, suggests that they may have actually been right. Scientists think that at the dawn of mankind, when the rest of the human race was busy evolving and...
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    Evolutionary Biology Geeks: Three must read books for you!

    Can you imagine Stephen Jay Gould recast as a tall and lanky Jesuit priest who has an interest in evolution? Can you imagine someone actually attempting the famous experiment of getting a large number of chimpanzees at keyboards to see if you can get any Shakespeare? Eventually? (The experiment...
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    How were Homo Sapiens different from other evolutionary groups?

    How were they different from Dryopithecines, Ramapithecines, Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, and Homo Erectus?
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    How were Homo Sapiens different from other evolutionary groups?

    How were they different from Dryopithecines, Ramapithecines, Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, and Homo Erectus?
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    Terry Deacon on Evolutionary Play

    Read the comments on this post... More...
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    What is the possible evolutionary trend in the relationship between humans

    and the AIDS virus or HIV? What evidence is there for this possibility???
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    Explain to me how it makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint to be born gay?

    Most gay people i've ever met say they are born that way, and that they do not "turn" into gays. But to me that doesn't make any sense, you can't breed with your own sex so why would nature, or god, or whatever allow such a thing to happen?
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