The Arc of Life: Evolution and Health Across the Life Course Eds. Grazyna Jazienska, Diana S. Sherry, & Donna J. Holmes Springer, 2017. Review by Daniel Hruschka, MPH, PhD School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University For half a century,...
Why do we still have an appendix? Measuring only 10 cm long and 7 mm wide, it must be one of the most troublesome vestigial organs in the human body. A quarter of a million cases of appendicitis were accounted for in the US in the five years between 1979 and 1984 and...
For a few years now, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown from ASU has been researching whether the microbiota are implicated in autism spectrum disorder, either by affecting a range of measurable behavioural characteristics of ASD or by affecting the gastro-intestinal discomfort...
There is reason to believe that among the key traits that distinguish humans from the primates that are phylogenetically closest to us are cognitive and social abilities as exemplified by language and diverse aspects of social interaction and cultural expression. It...
