You know the graphic, we all know the graphic. In fact, if you go to Google Images and type in “evolution” it will come up in various renderings—five or six silhouettes (always men) or other figures transforming from ape to human.  It’s not helpful! It’s also oversimplifying. And misleading. “You know that image of one species leading to another species leading to another species?” asks paleo-anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi in this 2025 BBC YouTube clip  that is part of a seri

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Contemplate these two important points: · There is no linear evolutionary history of the human species. · Different branches of...

Microevolution Part One focused on changes in anatomy that we — Homo Sapiens — have undergone in the past couple thousand years. Part Two...

When you work within the Anatomy in Clay curriculum and use the special clay to craft parts of the body, it’s easy to think of those body...

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The world is marked by dividing lines—continents, countries, states, cities, towns, etc. And the same holds true for the people who live...