Evolution Gone Wrong News Today

An interview with Alex Bezzerides, author of Evolution Gone Wrong. The book is a fresh and funny examination of the curious ways human beings have beaten the odds as a species.

Barbara J. King is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture. She is a Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. With a long-standing research interest in primate behavior and human evolution, King has studied baboon foraging in Kenya and gorilla and bonobo communication at captive facilities in the United States.

Barbara J. King is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture. She is a Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. With a long-standing research interest in primate behavior and human evolution, King has studied baboon foraging in Kenya and gorilla and bonobo communication at captive facilities in the United States.

A biologist explains the compromises that got us cutting our children's food for them

Who Were the First Humans to Cook Meat? Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail When you think of the earliest humans sitting down to a meal, what do you imagine them eating? Based on ancient cave paintings of hunters looking for their quarry, you can be pretty sure that meat was involved — and given the importance of fire in human development, you’re likely thinking that cooking that meat played a part as well. But what led to that transformation in eating habits — the point wh...

In his debut book Evolution Gone Wrong, Alex Bezzerides mixes the technical anatomical stuff we need to know with vivid examples and humorous phrases — in offering us some answers.

Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Dont), by Alex Bezzerides We humans have been evolving for millions of years and — as any good biologist will tell you — in response to pressures in our environment, we are evolving still. So how come our bodies are so flawed? Why does sharp vision so often elude us, for instance? Why do our backs hurt so frequently? The theme of Alex Bezzerides Evolution Gone Wrong : The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (or Dont) is that...