If the claims hold up, the study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution would be one of the first examples of human evolution in response to environmental pollution.
This section of the paper (and the supplemental materials described in Table 2) provide the background information necessary to present these examples of human evolution to students, as well as numerous citations an instructor could use to find additional information.
There is perhaps no more direct way to address cultural conflicts than by using examples of human evolution because reluctance to accept evolution is often due to a conflict between cultural, religious, or social beliefs about what it means to be human and an evolutionary perspective on the same question.
The findings, say scientists, are an impressive example of human evolution in action.
Scientists chalk up most of that increase to rising wealth, a rich diet, and good health care, but a new study suggests something else is going on as well: The Dutch growth spurt may be an example of human evolution in action.
For example, a study of human evolution museum exhibits by Scott (2007, 2006) found that information about evolution is obtained from a wide range of sources including TV, films, books, family discussions, and museums, and these conceptions influenced visitors' interpretation and understanding of these exhibits.
By Carson's own admission, he believes in much of the church's dogma – the Genesis account of creation, for example, rather than the scientific account of human evolution.
Ardi may make scientists rethink the story of human evolution — whether, for example, our ancestors were still sleeping in high branches when they began to walk upright on the ground.
Secondly, our study demonstrates how research on animal behavior can help to understand how basic cultural achievements may have been transmitted cumulatively during the first stages of human evolution, leading, for example, to the emergence of hand-axes.
In the course of human evolution, have we undergone humane evolution?
For example, the Tennessee law that gave rise to the famous Scopes trial, in 1925, "banned the teaching of human evolution, not the teaching of evolution," Mr. Numbers said.
