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What's new in Human Evolution?

Chris Scaturo

I love teaching human evolution.  Every year there is more and new information.   I recently found this article in Forbes* about how the Hobbits may have been shorter than we thought.  What new articles/topics are you reading about?

* Forbes has a weird pay wall.   I pasted the article into a google doc and ran in through AI to get some lower reading level versions.    

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    I read an article about the "hobbits" recently too (might have been this one even).  I knew about this species for a while, but I guess finding that arm bone was the kicker.  Knowing it's not just an anomaly, and that it's from an adult makes it pretty clear that evolution will take a different path if the environment is unique.  Makes you really wonder if we ever go into space, what will be the changes in humans in these different environs.  Of course it's also going to raise the question, are we in such control of our environment now that we'll never evolve naturally again?   

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    Hey  ,

    This is not "new" but it is an interesting turning point in human evolution. I think everyone should work it into this time period.

    How cooking food was pivotal to human evolution

    This is a link to a Scientific American article. Once humans learned to control fire and cook food, they could eat food more easily, waste less energy chewing, and absorb more nutrients. Bigger, stronger, faster, brains... a mini threshold.