The Passion Flower (passiflora) is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants. Different species range from, vines, shrubs, annuls and even trees. The vine is the most commonly found. It also produces a fruit (passionfruit). The passion Flower…
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If biological evolution had its way, we would be living for around 40 years, which was round about the average lifespan that modern humans have had for the vast part of their existence on earth. Disease was nature’s way of…
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When we think of evolution of man, we think of Charles Darwin. His theory of evolution says that man evolved from the apelike ancestor. “Modern man” evolved around 40,000 years ago. Ever since man has ‘come’ into planet Earth, life…
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The general theory that humans have essentially stopped evolving has never sat well with me. For why should that be the case, what could have told our DNA to stop adapting to its situation, like it has been doing since…
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In December 2007, researchers in Switzerland announced that they had created the first robots capable of a form of evolution – and had found something surprising along the way. What they’d done was build a number of machines programmed with…
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Darwinian Evolution: science or not? About 150 years ago a ship called The Beagle arrived at the Galapagos Islands carrying on board a naturalist researcher that’s destined to forever change the way we look at ourselves and at the rest…
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If we look at the history of human evolution, we can see certain patterns arise. Humans have gotten smaller. In the sense of a Neanderthal versus Homo Sapian. Our brains have gotten larger in comparison to body size. This has…
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Cats, cute little furry fun cats! What is not to love about these little furballs and all the cute playful fun you can have with them (don’t mind the temper though)? That playful house cat has 37 other big brother…
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The evolution of the domestic cat or housecat is unique within the natural histories of the various animals that humans have domesticated over the past ten thousand years. Evolutionary biologists today generally agree that the evolution of cats actually involved…
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It is estimated that anatomically modern humans have been on Planet Earth for around 200,000 years and that Planet Earth has been in existence for over 4.5 billion years. The human imprint upon the planet we inhabit has therefore been…
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