L0d3 had a clinal distribution across this region, whereas the other 'younger' branches of L0d, namely L0d1 and L0d2, only evolved in the ancestors of present day San. Intermediate branches of L0d3 were then lost because of drift and external factors such as the Bantu expansions, ...
Understand the relationship between food and culture. Get an overview of different food cultures around the world. Learn why food is important to a...
Indeed, most can change their growth strategy by allocating most of their photosynthetic gain into growing taller rather than into increasing in diameter or forming new branches, leaves or flowers These changes in growth strategies, or plastic responses to shade, can retard the development of size ...
So collectively, by trial and error, you find a way to stay dry and a way to stay warm on those cold nights by maybe constructing something very plain and simple made from branches and leaves. But then hunger starts to quickly settle in, so everyone starts eating anything and everything ...
One of the prevailing approaches to discourse analysis, developed in the 1960s, isspeech acttheory. At its core, speech act theory postulates that when a writer or speaker engages in discourse, he or she does something beyond just using words to convey meaning. This “doing something” isn’...
The blue eyes of some humans and lemurs are a striking example of convergent evolution of a rare phenotype on distant branches of the primate tree. Recent work on humans indicates that blue eye color is associated with, and likely caused by, a single nucleotide polymorphism (rs12913832) in ...