An extinct ape that lived in Germany 11.6 million years ago may have been bipedal – even though bipedality is the hallmark of more human-like species Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2222656-did-apes-first-walk-upright-on-two-legs-in-europe-not-africa/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Human Babies In the Womb Have Lizard-Like Hand Muscles
dryriver shares a report from the BBC: Babies in the womb have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands that most will lose before they are born, medical scans reveal. They are probably one of the oldest, albeit fleeting, remnants of evolution seen in humans yet, biologists say, in the journal Development. They date them as 250 million years old — a…
Evolution doesn’t proceed in a straight line
If you go by cartoons and T-shirts, you might think evolution proceeds as an orderly march toward a preordained finish line. But evolution has no endpoint in mind. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/evolution-not-straight-line…