Este 24 de noviembre se cumplen 160 años desde la publicación de “El origen de las especies”, el libro en el que Charles Darwin estableció las bases de la teoría de la evolución por selección natural.
¿Pero cuánto sabemos sobre la historia de nuestra especie?
¿Y por qué es un error decir que “descendemos de los monos”?
En BBC Mundo recordamos cinco datos que tal vez puedan resultarte sorprendentes sobre la evolución humana.
Parents are always being encouraged their children to step away from their computers and get more active.
A teoria da evolução, do cientista britânico Charles Darwin, é uma das pedras angulares da ciência moderna.
Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop bigger brains, a new paper argues.
The paper suggests that our early ancestors acquired a taste for fat by eating marrow scavenged from the skeletal remains of large animals that other predators killed and ate. The argument challenges the widely held view among anthropologists that eating meat was the critical factor in setting the stage for the evolution of humans.
Recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Assistant Professor Christoph Riedl’s latest research examines a model that might explain how humans resolve conflict, and what these actions say about biological and social behavior, both now and into the future.
Stress causes us to do a lot of weird things, like scratching somewhere on our body that isn’t itchy. But scientists may have solved the mystery of this one stress-induced behavior, after watching a bunch of monkeys.
When you hear about the theory of evolution, English scientist Charles Darwin is probably the first person who comes to mind. ‘Muslim scholar’, on the other hand, is the last thing to be associated with the theory.
Hayatın gayesi insan şuurunun tekamülüdür – Dr. Kilisli Rıfat
(The purpose of life is the evolution of human consciousness.)
