Since Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking work on evolution, scientists have been befuddled by some facets of how we became a species. Among the questions: Why do we have two legs? Or, have we stopped evolving? If not, what will we evolve into? Alltime 10s presents 10 unsolved mysteries of evolution.
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Will the human species ever evolve again, or has it reached its evolutionary peak? Skeptics believe that our race has indeed reached its physical and mental zenith. But some leading anthropologists are entertaining another school of thought, one that suggests that humans will continue to evolve in a way conducive to our modern world. More from Thoughty2.
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Are we really 99 percent chimp? Science tells us there are similarities in our tangled genetic make-up, but there are plenty of mismatches, too. “We share 99 percent of our DNA with chimps if we ignore 19 percent of their genome and 25 percent of ours,” Emily Elert says. She sorts the numbers in this edition of Minute Earth.
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The rapid advancement of technology will play a large role on how we evolve as human beings. For instance, our future relatives will more than likely have eyes that become unnervingly larger and blink sideways to avoid cosmic rays. They will also grow as we colonize alien planets in dimmer environments. Discover nine more evolutions to the human race in this edition of Alltime 10s.
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“One of the great tragedies of the world has been the hijacking of science as a political weapon,” Wild Bill says. “Actually, I would call it a crime. Isn’t that what fraud is?”
Wild Bill says bad science today lurks in three general areas–evolution, global warming and homosexuality. Tune in to this edition of Wild Bill for America as he explains.
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Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe — How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? — and discusses how we might go about answering them.
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What would it look like if we took Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, and stuffed it into a normal day’s 24 hour time-frame? Follow the magnificent journey of life; where it began, and how it eventually led to humanity as we know it. H/T ASAPscience
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