A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences proves that evolution is being affected by recent urbanization. Species are adapting to the new environment. But this means that some species will adapt while some will fail to do so and will become extinct. This is a wake-up call to the conservation biologists to devise a sustainable model of urban living.
It has been found that people more prone to joint and hip pain have spine shapes closer to that of our ancestors. Researchers have discovered a correlation between spine shape and joint pain. This calls for evolutionary biology to intervene in modern medicine to find out a cure for the hangover from evolution.
Scientists have found that people who are taller and generally more intelligent are a result of mixing genetically diverse DNA.
In the Brazilian state of Goias, situated in the center of the nation and home to the national capital of Brasilia, residents’ expressions in the sunbaked hills of Araras are all but non-existent. Blood-red eyes peer through twisted expressions, across faces scorched and scarred by the sun. Home to a very rare, and very dangerous genetic skin disorder, Xeroderma pigmentosum, the residents of Araras have become “children of the night” as they evade the excruciating effects that sunlight has on their dermal layers.
