The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 20): The Archaic Mosaic & The Dawn of Modern Humanity
From the Pan-African roots of Homo sapiens to the ancient DNA revelations of Neanderthal and Denisovan admixture, discover how a multi-species archaic...
Tag: Origin of Life
22 published articles in this collection.
The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 19): Homo erectus, Fire & The Global Diaspora
One point nine million years ago, Homo erectus conquered the globe. Discover the endurance running biomechanics of Turkana Boy, the chemical transformation...
The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 18): The Dawn of Genus Homo & Oldowan Lithic Technology
Two and a half million years ago, our direct ancestors took their first leap into technology. Discover the conchoidal fracture physics of...
The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 17): Australopithecus, The Laetoli Tracks & Robust Paranthropus
Three million years ago, Australopithecus dominated the African landscape. Discover the anatomy of Lucy (A.L. 288-1), the breathtaking volcanic ash footprints of...
The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 16): The Great Ape Split & The Biomechanics of Habitual Bipedalism
Seven million years ago, the hominin lineage parted ways with the African apes. Examine the genomic divergence between Pan and Homo, the...
The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 15): The Catarrhine Split, Trichromatic Vision & The Miocene Ape Radiations
Thirty million years ago, our ancestors underwent the Catarrhine divergence. Explore the genomic duplication that restored trichromatic color vision, the Alu retrotransposon...
The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 14): The Paleogene Mammalian Explosion & Primate Origins
In the aftermath of the K-Pg dinosaur extinction, mammals underwent an explosive adaptive radiation. Discover how early primates conquered the high forest...
The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 13): The Nocturnal Mammalian Bottleneck & The K-Pg Asteroid Crucible
For 150 million years, our mammalian ancestors survived in the dark shadows of the dinosaurs. Discover how the nocturnal bottleneck forged the...
The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 12): The Archosaur Empire — Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, and the Avian Transition
How the archosaurs seized mastery of the Mesozoic world. Explore the unidirectional flow-through respiratory super-engine that conquered Triassic hypoxia, the honeycombed bone...
The Evolutionary Odyssey (Part 11): The Synapsid Hegemony & The Permian-Triassic Great Dying
Long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, our stem-mammal ancestors conquered the continents. Discover the solar thermal engineering of Dimetrodon, the invention of...