Tag: Shrinking

Your late relatives, the Neanderthals, had slightly longer faces, too. And they had a much more pronounced bone structure. Because humans and Neanderthals interbred, some of those characteristics were incorporated into our faces, says Steven Churchill, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at ...

Perhaps the more active males who opted for more courageous roles due to reacting more sensitively to their testosterone [more risk taking and excitement seeking] became better built and so females competed for them, therefore, by natural selection the bigger male was bred! Over much ti...

As a young child, I loved Vacation Bible School — it was the only “summer camp” I ever went to. We made sun-catchers in the shape of doves, played Red Light Green Light in the shady grass behind the church, and sang our little hearts out every day. Summers always concluded with a b...