Human evolution

• Natural forces of evolution still continue to shape humanity despite the power we have to profoundly alter the world around us, researchers say.
(Huffington Post)
• Most scientists believe that human beings evolved in Africa, then migrated from the continent to conquer the world.
(Daily Mail)
• Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest laws continue to shape human evolution in the modern age, research has found. Humans are subject to the forces of natural selection just like any other species, say scientists.
(Daily Mail)
• New evidence proves humans are continuing to evolve and that significant natural and sexual selection is still taking place in our species in the modern world.
(Eureka! Science News)
• Scientists have claimed that human evolution also occurred outside Africa, after they found evidence that people in East Asia share genetic material with Denisovans, known as the mysterious cousins of Neanderthals.
(Deccan Herald)
• Scientists who study human evolution have long puzzled over why African Pygmies are so short. It is one of the most visible examples of human diversity, with Pygmy males standing just 4-foot-11 on average, while some of their neighboring ethnic groups are tall.
(Sci-Tech Today)
• DARWINIAN survival-of-the-fittest laws continue to shape human evolution in the modern age, research has shown. Humans are subject to the forces of natural selection just like any other species, say scientists.
(Independent)
• We are primarily sedentary in our modern lifestyle while having access to more food and calories year round than in any other time in human evolution.
(Stone Age Diet Alone Cannot Curb First Fat Storage Epidemic in 150,000 Generations - Seattle Post Intelligencer)
• Sometimes, life throws things at you. What you decide to do with them can mean nothing. Or it can mean everything. Like when Alyssa Crittenden was an undergraduate and she took an introduction to evolution class at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
(Las Vegas Review Journal)
• The discovery in Africa of a one million year old fireplace may enable us to identify when humans first began using fire Cooking is a universal in human culture.
(Raw Story)