250 Million Years of Turtle Evolution - ThoughtCo That all changed in 2008 with two major discoveries: first up was the late Jurassic, western European Eileanchelys, touted by researchers as the earliest marine turtle yet identified Unfortunately, only a few weeks later, Chinese paleontologists announced the discovery of Odontochelys, which lived a whopping 50 million years earlier
Public’s Views on Human Evolution | Pew Research Center According to a new Pew Research Center analysis, six-in-ten Americans (60%) say that “humans and other living things have evolved over time,” while a third (33%) reject the idea of evolution, saying that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time ”
Evolution of Brain Size | Ask An . . . - Ask An Anthropologist Many studies have confirmed that people generally have social networks of around 150 people Monkeys or apes, on the other hand, interact with only about 10 to 20 individuals per day, so their social networks are much smaller An increase in brain size during human evolution would have resulted in an increase in the social networks of hominins
The Deep Connection Between Life and Fire - The Atlantic The rhythms that characterize modern fire-adapted ecosystems took hundreds of millions of years to form Earth’s earliest wildfires may have been fitful and erratic, flickering among the
We will never be able to live on another planet. Here’s why . . . Anatomically modern humans emerged less than 400,000 years ago; we have been around for less than 0 01 per cent of the Earth’s story The only reason we find Earth habitable now is because of the vast and diverse biosphere that has for hundreds of millions of years evolved with and shaped our planet into the home we know today