The Human Dynasty

A Genetic tests indicate that a 2,000-year-old skeleton unearthed in eastern Mongolia was a man of European or western Asian descent. “We don’t know if this 60- to 70-year-old man reached Mongolia on his own or if his family had already lived there for many generations,” said DNA analyst Charles Brenner.

(Association for Psychological Science) Male homosexuality doesn’t make complete sense from an evolutionary point of view. One possible explanation is what evolutionary psychologists call the “kin selection hypothesis.” What that means is that homosexuality may convey an indirect benefit by enhancing the survival prospects of close relatives.

Humans and their primate cousins parted ways along the evolutionary road millions of years ago, but despite their divergent paths they still have a few things in common, according to two special reports on recent scientific findings just published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. (PRWeb Jan 27, 2010)

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