• Recent human evolution refers to evolutionary adaptation, sexual and natural selection, and genetic drift within Homo sapiens populations, since their...
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    hominid subfamily), indicating that human evolution was not linear but weblike. The study of the origins of humans involves several scientific disciplines...
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    The recent African origin of modern humans or the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA) is the most widely accepted paleo-anthropological model of the geographic...
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  • of human evolution. Multiregional evolution holds that the human species first arose around two million years ago and subsequent human evolution has...
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    Humans", The American Journal of Human Genetics 101, 578–589, October 5, 2017. Kamberov, Yana G (14 February 2013). "Modeling Recent Human Evolution in...
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    genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution, such as sexual selection, genetic drift, and...
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  • creation, but can include beliefs such as creation of the human soul. Modern theistic evolution accepts the general scientific consensus on the age of the...
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  • microevolution is evolution occurring within the population(s) of a single species. In other words, microevolution is the scale of evolution that is limited...
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  • Parallel evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response...
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    Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous...
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  • arriving at an estimate for human and chimpanzee divergence time of 12.1 million years. Studies in the early 2020s suggest a more recent CHLCA, such as between...
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    adaptive radiation in biology and human evolution, pp. 28–32, 1994, Orion Publishing. Grant, P.R. 1999. The ecology and evolution of Darwin's Finches. Princeton...
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  • alleles with higher fitness more common over time, resulting in Darwinian evolution. The term "Darwinian fitness" can be used to make clear the distinction...
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    PMID 26500257. Kamberov, Yana G (14 February 2013). "Modeling Recent Human Evolution in Mice by Expression of a Selected EDAR Variant". Cell. 152 (4):...
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    2006). "Evidence for Recent Positive Selection at the Human AIM1 Locus in a European Population". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23 (1): 179–188. doi:10...
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  • range of embryonic changes that evolution can produce—an appreciation that has yielded spectacular results in recent years as scientists have discovered...
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    Unsolved problem in biology What selection pressures led to the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction? More unsolved problems in biology Sexually...
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    accept evolution), and there is much less pressure to teach it as fact. Christian fundamentalists reject the evidence of common descent of humans and other...
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  • Evolution. 16 (3): 257–271. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1962.tb03218.x. S2CID 88311196. Gottlieb, L.D. (2003). "Rethinking classic examples of recent speciation...
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    the specific mechanisms of evolution, but generally accords with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Recent work in developmental biology...
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    representatives of the collection, the most recent common ancestor of the collection, and all descendants of the most recent common ancestor. It is thus a way of...
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  • perspective of human evolution is described for a popular audience in The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins. Dawkins lists "concestors" of the human lineage...
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  • gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential...
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    In human genetics, the Y-chromosomal Adam (more technically known as the Y-chromosomal most recent common ancestor, shortened to Y-MRCA), is the patrilineal...
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  • of Evolution, written in the early 1890s, is a popular example. The final chapter of the book is devoted to sociobiological explanations of human behavior...
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    understanding of the theory of evolution, seeing humans as descending from certain mammals. These include the Malagasy people, who see humans as descending from indri;...
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  • ambient air temperature from reaching the skin. Apparent temperature Recent human evolution Thermal comfort Longo, Dan L.; Harrison, Tinsley Randolph. Harrison's...
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    "A Recent Shift from Polygyny to Monogamy in Humans Is Suggested by the Analysis of Worldwide Y-Chromosome Diversity". Journal of Molecular Evolution. 57...
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