Great blog. The enumeration of microbial cells inhabiting our body has been revised though. The current estimate is that there is roughly an equal number of both human and microbial cells. The microbial

Check out . Many other examples too. There are only 4 "official" forces of evolution. Sexual and natural selection fall under the same force. I'm not sure what you would call epigenetics, but

Unless your next reply contains some links to scientific evidence backing up your claim, I will just assume you are talking nonsense and trying to spread harmful information.

I don't doubt you. Could you put some references in please? Where are these scientific studies. I have searched for them and all I can find is an enormous lack of evidence for your claims

I cannot seem to find any research relating to these 8 benefits. Maybe you could post a link as a reply. I did however find many research articles stating that a gluten-free diet can be nutritionally

Great article, 200 years later, Lamarkism is returning with the field of epigenetics

I understand and appreciate what you are trying to do. Keep up the good work. Just read into things a bit more or you leave it very easy for creationists and others to dismantle your article

We belong to the same family, Hominidae. We shared a common ancestor about 6 million years ago. Whatever that ancestor was, it was not chimp or human. One lineage resulted in modern chimps (and Bonobos),

Nice article but we did not evolve from chimps.

Great article. The current consensus is that we contain roughly an equal amount of microbial and human cells. The view that we were outnumbered 10 to 1 by bacteria was based on research that used colon

Just to amend my first comment (I thought it would be disingenuous to edit it), you will get somewhere by finger pointing. Companies have been held accountable. I do believe that cooperation is a faster

Good post. I agree that something needs to be done to mitigate environmental damage. Whether I agree or not though, is unimportant. Something does need to be done or we will have a much more difficult

Quite an old paper, but a good place to start if you are interested: Article Link

Mass extinctions of the worlds megafauna coincides with the arrival of man to a new land. In Australia, shortly after government-less humans arrived 65,000 years ago roughly, the larger animals went extinct

Fascinating article. Rotifers are another great example of parthenogenesis. Some species can switch between sexual or asexual reproduction. This is believed to optimize colonization via rapid reproduction.

The problem here isn't the odds against that happening, but the odds of such a mutation then meeting another identical mutation of the opposite sex. The bigger the population, the better the odds.

My favorite animals!!! Excellent post. I used to breed these little dudes. Hours and hours spent watching them.

Great article. Bats are another mammal that defy the trends of mammalian life expectancy (life-span proportional to size). And they do this despite having a much higher basal metabolic rate. Brand new

Wind-farms kill bats. Bats are awesome. Your post is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Depends on the field. Most Evolutionary Biologists working with bats, scorn at the use of these words (jokingly of course). I can imagine though, that in a discipline that does not require such phylogenetic