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Development of the human body is the process of growth to maturity. The process begins with fertilization, where an egg released from the ovary of a female is penetrated by a sperm cell from a male.
Nov 29, 2021 · The New Human, a documentary from The Nature of Things, looks at some of the ways humans may physically transform in response to the world around us — and how technology is already impacting how...
Evolution operates over timescales of millions of years. Our ability to alter birth rates and survival chances, through technology and medicine, is so powerful that it swamps the gentle tug of natural selection.
Our brains are unlikely to get proportionally larger as any significant change in size would affect the ability for a baby’s head to pass through the pelvis during birth. The pelvis is a compromise between an upright posture, bipedalism and the size of the birth canal.
Mar 27, 2021 · In fact, about 1 in 100,000 people are born without an appendix, according to a report in the journal Case Reports in Surgery. What might life be like then if everyone lacked an appendix?
Jan 1, 2009 · In most parts of the globe, babies no longer die in large numbers. People with genetic damage that was once fatal now live and have children. Natural predators no longer affect the rules of...
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May 17, 2016 · Many people think evolution requires thousands or millions of years, but biologists know it can happen fast. Now, thanks to the genomic revolution, researchers can actually track the population-level genetic shifts that mark evolution in action—and they're doing this in humans.