• more about #naturalselection
    Dr Emilio Lizardo: It must be great to have a job making predictions that no one will live to see. #evolution more »
    The Curse of Millhaven: Women who are two centimeters taller than average will be seen as caveman throwbacks and enslaved. #evolution more »
    Smeagol92055: SCIENCE #evolution more »
    Alessar: Nice use of chibi picture of ex-model Jean "Phoenix" Grey for the story illustration. #evolution more »
    J_Frank_Parnell: And after 100 generations we will evolve into the Morlocks and the Eloi. #evolution more »
    psychiccheese: 2409? That seems a bit specific. They couldn't just round to 2400, or even 2410? do they have a specific date picked out when all the women in the ... more »
    Fierock: except this study doesn't predict the social factors or mating rituals of future generations, which may have a continue to have a sexual preference fo... more »
    tetracycloide: hasn't this been the trend since the dawn of the human race? a lot of it is that male preferences, for thousands of years, were selected for males th... more »
    Turael: I am sure one could draw all sorts of varying conclusions on why shorter, plumper, more fertile (really? more fertile women have more children? I am s... more »
    evildead1971: fat bottomed girls make the rocking world go round #evolution more »
    Belabras: I, for one, welcome this brave new world. #evolution more »
    ejs2000: And in 800 generations, the average woman will be zero centimeters in height, weigh zero kilograms, bear her first child 400 months earlier and enter ... more »
    disatess: WOW finally some good news. #evolution more »
    92BuickLeSabre: So my life-long attraction to shorter, curvier women isn't just personal preference! It's supported by science! #evolution more »
    redqueenmeg: See, I keep telling people the short girls get all the guys.... #evolution more »
    ceilingFANBOY: In a way, you can see this happening with humans. Before anyone jumps on my comment, I am not about to say that people of different races are differe... more »
    BartholomewFlop: Actually, there are two effects in play in cases of geographic isolation. The first is, as you mentioned, the new hardships or abundances. But the s... more »
    Shai: I think one of the points is you don't need geographical separation to create new species, not to have beneficial mutations. Standard models of evolut... more »
    PostMarque: was this study also paid for by the Christian Science Network as seen on GOP more »
    rek: Geographic isolation is not the definition of natural selection. Natural selection is when that little mutation that turns you from red to green also ... more »
  • #naturalselection

    America's Next Top Model Will Be Shorter, Rounder

    Sorry, fashion industry: The shape of things to come for women will be shorter and plumper, and it's all thanks to natural selection. Or, at least, that's what some scientists are claiming. More »
  • #evolution

    Species Diversity Not Caused By Environment

    Accepted scientific wisdom holds that new species arise because of geographic separation - the same bird evolves differently on two different islands. But a new study overturns this idea, challenging the importance of environment as a driver of evolution. More »
  • #conservation

    Darwinian Stock Market Tanks With The Real One