Many people do not realize that evolution is not linear. The traditional image of evolution is still depicted by that poster hanging on the wall of the grade school science classroom that shows some of our ancestors in a line, starting with a crouching ape then progressing to a fully standing human. A Neanderthal is […]
We live in a world defined by our beliefs. We largely shape our beliefs by what we see, or think we see in the world around us. It is a catch-22 of sorts as the lines become muddled between what we believe, and therefore see – and what we see and henceforth believe. We have […]
A brand new research study, conducted by a group of Adelaide scientists, suggests that there was an incredible acceleration in the rate of evolution, some 580 million years ago. This was likely to have occurred during the “Cambrian explosion,” a period in time when many collections of modern animals rapidly materialized. These findings seem to […]