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A fascinating piece from Mental_Floss shows how humans may still be evolving in accordance with Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. The piece suggests that the following are traits that show humans are still evolving: non-human milk drinking the slow disappearance of wisdom teeth disease resistance shrinking brains and blue more »
Are there limits on human longevity? Sure. Few people will make it past a hundred years of age in the environment of today’s medical technology – but today is today, and the technology of tomorrow will be a different story. If you want to talk about longevity and mortality rates, more »
Pigs could be used to grow human organs used for transplant. Stem cells from a human recipient can be implanted to an animal which would then grow the organ. Pigs anatomy is similar to human anatomy. Basically the internal cavity of the pig is very similar to that of a more »