I'm really interested in the evolution of humans, when empathy and compassion started which is very rare in nature.
The oldest lemur fossils are about 58 million years old, making them important links in studies of the evolution of humans and other primates.
A literal interpretation of Genesis seems incompatible with the gradual evolution of humans and other organisms by natural processes.
Scientists have concluded early human ancestor jaws were not built for a diet of hard food - contradicting long-held theories about the evolution of humans.
When he asks about the evolution of humans, for example, he focuses on ancestral DNA rather than on conjectures about hominid ethology.
Understanding the origin of the human genome is of particular interest to many researchers since the genome is indicative of the evolution of humans.
"To me the interbreeding question is not whether there was hybridisation but whether there was any hybridisation that affected the subsequent evolution of humans.
When a skull and jawbone were dug by a workman from a gravel pit on Piltdown Common in southern England in 1912, a reconstruction of the head seemed to represent a new sort of manlike creature and a bridge in the evolution of humans from apes.
In some cases, people confuse the "biological" approach of evolutionary science, which seeks to understand how genes contributed to the evolution of humans as a species, with the field of behavioral genetics, which investigates to what extent heredity accounts for how traits like shyness or schizophrenia vary from person to person.
An important resource in understanding the evolution of humans and their culture, then, is comparative behavior.
Worse still, this variability is the basis for the natural selection and evolution of humans.
