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Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2012
Humans have had a definite effect upon a diverse array of species. In his paper entitled, “Loss of speciation rate will impoverish future diversity”, Michael Rosenzweig discusses the effects of human presence upon the macroevolution of species. One of the papers arguments is rooted in the idea that human intervention and development is directly contributing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2012
The study of the evolution of human traits such as behavioral characteristics and culture is a difficult task. Unlike morphological features, such traits present no direct physical relics of their previous forms, causing extrapolations and educated conjecture to dominate the field of study. Thus, the argument that cultural evolution possess Darwinian properties, though intriguing, is debatable. In their paper, Mesoudi, Whiten and [...]