How Birds Evolvedoi:10.1515/9780691227269FutuymaDouglas J.Princeton University Press
Language likely began somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago. How did language evolve? Language evolved from the human need to communicate with each other in order to hunt, farm and defend themselves successfully from their harsh environment. The ability to communicate using language gave...
Where did insect evolve from? It is estimated that the class of insects originated on Earth about 480 million years ago, in the Ordovician, at about the same time terrestrial plants appeared. Insects may have evolved froma group of crustaceans. ...
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Like many mothers in the animal kingdom, a polar bear will kill anyone or anything that comes near her young. Polar bears are predators, pure and simple. So what happens when they get stuck on land, with people around? There might be trouble – but as we'll find out, polar bears sel...
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Why did echolocation evolve in animals? For dolphins and toothed whales, this technique enables them to see in muddy waters or dark ocean depths, and may even have evolved so that they can chase squid and other deep-diving species.
Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation.
was best of all, was a quiet place in which to work. The house was built at the edge of an enchanted wood, where the stone wall of an ancient footbridge lay sunken, broke-backed, into the ditch, and through the daylight hours there would be the varied song and call of many birds....