Evolution – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:48:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Evolution – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Fossil Spine Shows Ancient Humans Walking Like Us and Climbing Like Apes https://brewminate.com/fossil-spine-shows-ancient-humans-walking-like-us-and-climbing-like-apes/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:24:15 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=167576 Studying the lower back allows researchers to understand how the species’ anatomy was adapted for different kinds of

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When Did Our Human Ancestors Start to Walk? https://brewminate.com/when-did-our-human-ancestors-start-to-walk/ Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:04:30 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=164489 Walking took a very long time to develop, with evidence of bipedalism among early humans in Africa roughly

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Discovering When the Very First Early Humans Left Africa https://brewminate.com/discovering-when-the-very-first-early-humans-left-africa/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:11:50 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=163090 Humans left Africa to settle all across the world, probably multiple times. Introduction Previous evidence suggested that early

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How Ancient Shark Teeth Recorded Earth’s Climate History https://brewminate.com/how-ancient-shark-teeth-recorded-earths-climate-history/ Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:23:39 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=161880 These giant predators are helping solve the mystery of Earth’s cooling shift some 50 million years ago. Introduction

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Survival of the Fibbest? BS Conspiracy Theories Have Roots in Human Evolution https://brewminate.com/survival-of-the-fibbest-bs-conspiracy-theories-have-roots-in-human-evolution/ Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:10:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=160130 The “Big Lies” of leaders like Trump may be deeply ingrained in human development. A new paper by two

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Talk to Me: The Origins and Evolution of Speech https://brewminate.com/talk-to-me-the-origins-and-evolution-of-speech/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:16:39 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=157306 Research into the development of human language. By Matt Phillips Introduction Picture a human being before the dawn

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How Did Humans Evolve, and Will We Evolve More? https://brewminate.com/how-did-humans-evolve-and-will-we-evolve-more/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:55:15 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=151778 Our biggest evolutionary advantages are an ability to walk on two legs and our big brains. By Dr.

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Bonobos: Some Generous Apes and the Evolution of Human Kindness https://brewminate.com/bonobos-some-generous-apes-and-the-evolution-of-human-kindness/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:54:55 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=150704 Bonobos may help explain how humans evolved the capacity to be nice – at least some of the

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A Prehistoric Journey of Interspecies Surprises https://brewminate.com/a-prehistoric-journey-of-interspecies-surprises/ Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:00:50 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=140994 The longest known trackway of ancient human fossil footprints, offering evidence of interactions between an adult and a

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Homo Sapiens May Have Saved Early Neanderthals from Extinction https://brewminate.com/homo-sapiens-may-have-saved-early-neanderthals-from-extinction/ Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:02:55 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=136130 Early Neanderthals likely benefited from an ingression of H. sapiens Y chromosomes some-time between 370,000 and 100,000 years

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