Natural Science Forum / Biology / Evolution / December 2007

So my seven year old daughter asked me:
"Where do people come from?"
(not babies.. people...)
So, I would like to explain this to her and I need to see examples

I heard about the alledgedly racist comments of James Watson; I have
not read them but assume he holds the conviction "Whites" are more
intelligent than "Blacks". If that not be the case then please some
poster provide the proper context. "Racial" differences in

Nature Reviews Genetics 9, 75-82 (January 2008) | doi:10.1038/nrg2278
Is evolvability evolvable?
Massimo Pigliucci
Abstract

Some 15 years ago now I studied for a PhD in Molecular Biology which
included elements of Molecular Evolution - the result being that I
remained ignorant of some of the trends in broader evolutionary
biology. I did not go on to pursue a job in science but I maintain an

Group selection, a theory whose time has come...again
Sociobiology, the discipline founded on Darwin's theory of group evolution,
is in theoretical disarray. In a landmark article for the December issue of
the Quarterly Review of Biology, eminent evolutionary scientists David Sloan

Rapid acceleration in human evolution described
Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several
thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought,
researchers said on Monday.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0249_01C83D7B.00CCC270
Content-Type: text/plain;
    charset="iso-8859-1"

I find Homo sapiens sapiens used in some places, Homo sapiens in
others. Haven't been able to find the distinction. Would somebody
please clue me in?
Thank you.

The latest one I sighted:
``TAG UR IT!!!! this is so scary. send this to 15 people in
  the next 143 mins. when you are done press F6 and your
  crushes name will appear on the screen in big letters.

Nature 450, 1079-1081 (13 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature06350; Received
9 July 2007; Accepted 4 October 2007; Published online 2 December 2007
Csaba Pal, María D. Maciá, Antonio Oliver, Ira Schachar & Angus Buckling
Bacteria with greatly elevated mutation rates (mutators) are ...

I've just got a small introduction to ESS (through "The selfish
Gene";well, I'm a beginner) and I had the following questions:-
Are the individuals in a species conscious of the ESS trends and their
adaption to them?

A little while back I saw in a post somewhere an explanation on how
the female species of humans originated. It had something to do with
cell division or some similar process.
Can any one please tell me where I can find something to read on this

http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=120607-1
Are Humans Evolving Faster?
Findings Suggest We are Becoming More Different, Not Alike
Dec. 10, 2007 - Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding

New hypothesis for origin of life proposed
Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral
mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new hypothesis.
The hypothesis was developed by Helen Hansma, a research scientist with the

AUTH James R.Flynn
TITL What is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect
YEAR 2007
PUBL Cambridge University Press