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Luna the Aussiedoodle
I’ve been a bit busy lately with a new addition to the family. Her name is Luna, and she’s an Aussiedoodle – a cross between an Australian Shepherd and a Standard Poodle. She’s gorgeous, playful, and smart as a whip.
Human Evolution and Frameshift Mutations
How did humans evolve from early primates? How did “human like” traits such as a smaller jaw relative to apes and hairlessness pop up when they don’t appear in the wild in any real frequency? The typical explanation for why humans have smaller jaws than early primates is that our diets changed and our brains got bigger, pressures that caused a smaller jaw. But there’s another way to look at this – what if our diets changed and our brains got bigger due to proto-human society dealing and adapting to an increasingly frequent and nearly catastrophic mutation of the jaw?
New Host!
gmilburn.ca is now on Pair Networks… bear with me as I move everything over. If you posted a comment in the last 12 hours or so it may have been lost – my apologies.
