The compositional evolution of the vertebrate genome, from fishes to humans, is of very general interest because of its bearing on the role of natural selection in the evolutionary process. Keywords: natural selection; isochores; neutral theory; compositional genomics...
Here, we review how advances in our understanding of the genetic architectures of diseases, recent human evolution and deep evolutionary history can help explain how and why humans in modern environments become ill. Human populations exhibit differences in the prevalence of many common and rare ...
Life history theory concerns the scheduling of births and the level of parental investment in each offspring. In most human societies the inheritance of we... Ruth,Mace - 《Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences》 被引量: 236发表: 1998年 The Evolution of the Huma...
Human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. The only extant members of the human tribe, Hominini, belong to the species Homo sapiens. The exact nature of the evolutionary relationships between modern h
Evolution, theory in biology postulating that the various types of living things on Earth have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations. The theory of evolution is
evolution of fitness components, so-called life history traits, and how they interact: size at birth; growth pattern; age and size at maturity; number, size, and sex of offspring; age-, stage- or size-specific reproductive effort; age-, stage- or size-specific rates of survival; and ...
Darwin eventually turned to the human evolution in 1871 when he wrote The Descent of Man. In this book, Darwin corrected earlier misconceptions of his work and made it clear that humans had not evolved from modern-day monkeys, but that both had shared a common ancestor. ...
3.8 billion Emergence of organisms. Beginning of biology. 6 million Last common grandmother of humans and chimpanzees. 2.5 million Evolution of the genus Homo in Africa. First stone tools. 2 million Humans spread from Africa to Eurasia. Evolution of different human species. 500,000 Neanderth...
After the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859), it became increasingly plausible to view the current version of humanity not as the endpoint of evolution but rather as an early phase.7 The rise of scientific physicalism might also have contributed to the belief that technology might...
where it's possible to move up through the social classes, evolution favors individuals who reach a greater height.Subramanian at Harvard University isn't convinced by the pair's interpretation. His team previously showed that the best predictor of a child's height is the height of their ...