Evolution Theory Upheaval?

[johnnya24]

Sorry ... didn't mean to get religious folks' hopes up

This could be a pretty groundbreaking discovery. Accepted theory has many different branches of human ancestors in the Homo family. A recent discovery of many intact skulls in Georgia reveals that there was significant variance in size and shape within the Homo Erectus population, enough to possibly account for all the various shapes and sizes of skulls found from the same period in Africa. Up to now, if they found a different shape or size, they slapped a new species and branch onto the tree. This discovery could chop off many of those branches, and simplify the story of human evolution.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/17/skull-homo-erectus-human-evolution

There have been a lot of big science stories these last few weeks.

[TranaGreg]

for those interested in such things, an interesting story - witnessing evolution in progress ...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ci...mals-1.2533951

Fish in New York's chemically-laden Hudson River have evolved a genetic variation that gives them resistance to PCBs, for example. Birds nesting under highway overpasses in Nebraska have developed shorter, more agile wings, allowing them to quickly swerve from oncoming traffic. And weeds occupying patches of earth surrounding sidewalk trees in France have evolved to produce fewer dispersing seeds, which travel on the breeze and fall uselessly onto concrete. Instead, they produce compact seeds that drop close to the plant where they can germinate.