Deceptive Genetic Distance
Ricky Gervais mentions a few of our relatives here . . .
Can this possibly be true. This sources says yes.
And I do LOVE this cladogram. I quick scan shows you where many basic human features start coming online.
Ricky Gervais mentions a few of our relatives here . . .
Can this possibly be true. This sources says yes.
And I do LOVE this cladogram. I quick scan shows you where many basic human features start coming online.
For efficiency, we can take down most of the yard signs on display and replace them with this:
Geoffrey Miller describes how we got here, and it seems like an impossible journey.
And there is most definitely a selection bias, because many people didn't make it and didn't reproduce. Here's how Thomas Hobbes might have summed up 100,000 generations of camping trips ". . . continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
I enjoyed these patterns and colors, so I hovered over this cabbage and took this photo two years ago. If these weren't so common, this photo would be one of the most amazing things you've ever seen. We often don't appreciate the extraordinary beauty of common things because they are common.