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  2. Red Queen hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    This evolution is constant; were one of the two to stop evolving, it would go extinct. The Red Queen hypothesis has been invoked by some authors to explain evolution of aging. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The main idea is that aging is favored by natural selection since it allows faster adaptation to changing conditions, especially in order to keep pace with ...

  3. The 10,000 Year Explosion - Wikipedia

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    The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution is a 2009 book by anthropologists Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending.Starting with their own take on the conventional wisdom that the evolutionary process stopped when modern humans appeared, the authors explain the genetic basis of their view that human evolution is accelerating, illustrating it with some examples.

  4. Recent human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Cave paintings (such as this one from France) represent a benchmark in the evolutionary history of human cognition. Victorian naturalist Charles Darwin was the first to propose the out-of-Africa hypothesis for the peopling of the world, [40] but the story of prehistoric human migration is now understood to be much more complex thanks to twenty-first-century advances in genomic sequencing.

  5. New ‘supercontinent’ could wipe out humans and make Earth ...

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    The formation of a new “supercontinent” could wipe out humans and all other mammals still alive in 250 million years, researchers have predicted.

  6. Human extinction - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear war is an often-predicted cause of the extinction of humankind. [1]Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction).

  7. Life After People - Wikipedia

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    The featured experts also talk about the impact of human absence on the environment and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind. The series was preceded by a two-hour special that aired on January 21, 2008, on the History Channel which served as a de facto pilot for the series that premiered April 21, 2009. The documentary and subsequent ...

  8. The World Without Us - Wikipedia

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    The World Without Us is a 2007 non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books. [1] It is a book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 Discover article "Earth Without People". [2]

  9. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of dark skin at about 1.2 Ma. [39] Homo antecessor may be a common ancestor of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. [40] [41] At present estimate, humans have approximately 20,000–25,000 genes and share 99% of their DNA with the now extinct Neanderthal [42] and 95–99% of their DNA with their closest living evolutionary relative, the ...