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Diet and your genes

September 26, 2007 | Alison | genetics, human evolution, new science stories, scholarship biology

Modern molecular biology has allowed us to look ever more closely into the genetic changes associated with human evolution. A recent research project used this technology to examine a possible relationship between diet and genome.

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marathon man, part deux

September 22, 2007 | Alison | human evolution, new science stories, scholarship biology

Possession of an Achilles tendon is only one of the things that sets humans up for endurance running. Bramble & Lieberman (2004) note that long-distance running requires a whole suite of adaptations for skeletal strength, stabilisation, thermoregulation, and energetics. I'll summarise some of their comments here.

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marathon man?

September 19, 2007 | Alison | human evolution, new science stories, scholarship biology

I was looking through the SciTech Daily website (a good place to go for new reading in a whole range of science areas) when I saw the link to an article on the evolution of running in Homo. Followed it, read the article – & thought, this is really interesting.

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Question: are humans still evolving?

August 2, 2007 | Alison | evolution, genetics, human evolution

Here’s a question to consider: are humans still evolving? What sort of evidence could we use to answer this question?      We do tend to view evolution as something that happened in the past, and see the study of evolution as a ‘historical’ science. But nothing could be further from the truth. Evolution is an […]

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