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5 days ago · Australopithecus lived between 4 and 2 million years ago and gave rise to the genus Homo to which we belong. Homo habilis, which is the earliest known representative of our genus, lived about 2.8 million years ago and used stone tools. Over time, the brains of hominins got larger.
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3 days ago · The Government Communications Service is expecting to save £85 million from reducing unnecessary communications spend – exceeding the £50 million target set out in July; and
1 day ago · “It’s like some… like a wooden cigarette that gives you flavours, but it’s not even a cigarette, you don’t even light it.” In June of 2021, Joe Rogan was discussing habits with researcher David Sinclair, halfway through a three-hour episode, when he remembered a strange product he had seen sponsoring a few podcasts. A few minutes later, his producer Jamie put it up on the big ...
6 days ago · The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period.
2 days ago · The boy stood in awe of his overbearing father, whose astute medical observations taught him much about human psychology. But he hated the rote learning of Classics at the traditional Anglican Shrewsbury School, where he studied between 1818 and 1825.
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built. The theory was outlined...
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution had three main components: that variation occurred randomly among members of a species; that an individual’s t...
- Growing up, Charles Darwin was always attracted to the sciences. In 1825 his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. Ther...
- Charles Darwin was born in England to a well-to-do family in 1809. His father was a doctor, and his mother—who died when he was only eight years ol...
- Charles Darwin’s theories hugely impacted scientific thought. But his ideas also affected the realms of politics, economics, and literature. More i...
2 days ago · DDT became a prime target of the growing anti-chemical and anti-pesticide movements, and in 1967 a group of scientists and lawyers founded Environmental Defense (later Environmental Defense Fund, EDF) with the specific goal of enacting a ban on DDT.
5 days ago · Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes. [1]
