Pinboard (andrewducker) https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/public/ recent bookmarks from andrewducker Why don't humans have a penis bone? 2026-04-14T16:31:24+00:00 https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-the-badger-penis andrewduckerevolution sex penis bone badgers ViaDrCross https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:877a68b69dea/ Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less aggressive 2025-12-21T09:30:43+00:00 https://phys.org/news/2025-12-italian-villages-evolved-smaller-aggressive.html andrewduckerbears evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9df0de79f82c/ Man with Covid for over two years became virus incubator, as it evolved into new variants of concern 2025-09-18T11:16:49+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/long-covid-virus-incubator-man-b2828926.html andrewduckerpandemic virus evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a23bedca26b4/ Snow White, various dwarves, and convergent evolution with butterflies 2025-08-17T07:34:34+00:00 https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/792106190956118016?source=share andrewduckershort_story evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:793523dcdba4/ Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals 2025-04-08T11:50:43+00:00 https://www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals-20250407/ andrewduckerIntelligence crows primates evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7e6a7dacf3be/ Evolution explained by Rage Against The Machine 2024-07-10T10:42:04+00:00 https://youtube.com/shorts/KAWs4UIN6zM?si=p4Cfz_T_ljLHVITi andrewduckermusic evolution funny viaMyBrotherMike https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c4dfff9db29e/ The chambered nautilus is a bunch of tentacles in armour. What keeps it penned into a tiny part of the ocean? 2024-03-17T20:35:29+00:00 https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/16/occasional-paper-when-armor-met-lips/ andrewduckerevolution ocean https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e0efb2974ae6/ The ocean that humans carry inside of us 2024-03-12T21:00:59+00:00 https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/744779574274097152/elodieunderglass-mugwomps?source=share andrewduckerhumans ocean evolution blood https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c87d2ff1cd66/ On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes 2024-03-02T10:49:51+00:00 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07095-8 andrewduckergenetics humans evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4f03038e983d/ ADHD may have emerged in humans as an evolutionary advantage 2024-02-21T11:20:24+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/adhd-symptoms-impulsivity-evolution-advantage-b2499749.html andrewduckeradhd evolution behaviour https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d9c26f5dc40a/ DNA-researcher: It’s not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It’s evolution. 2023-12-02T18:44:47+00:00 https://www.sciencenordic.com/archaeology-denmark-history/dna-researcher-its-not-woke-to-portray-prehistoric-europeans-with-dark-skin-its-evolution/2273715 andrewduckerevolution colour skin Europe prehistory genetics https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c371657113fc/ Complex ape-man culture, with burial practices, may have existed in Africa 300,000 years ago 2023-08-10T09:18:01+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-evolution-archaeology-homo-sapiens-b2390633.html andrewduckerafrica humans evolution society culture death https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:696902db8682/ India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks 2023-06-23T06:15:19+00:00 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01770-y andrewduckerIndia science evolution education OhForFucksSake https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a86bc1cb7377/ 57 different scripts that all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (from Latin to Aramaic to Tibetan to Javanese) 2023-06-22T13:21:35+00:00 https://starkeycomics.com/2018/12/11/the-abcd-family-tree/ andrewduckerlanguage history evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d54b3c258062/ How many of these do you think are birds? 2023-06-15T06:25:06+00:00 https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/720172430913683456?source=share andrewduckerbirds paleontology evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:db2c5b298428/ But *how* can a global communications network help us eat more sulfur? 2023-05-22T07:43:15+00:00 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1037033142261968896 andrewduckerevolution funny ViaDrCross https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:94d88a10eb31/ Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions 2023-03-09T09:12:51+00:00 https://news.iu.edu/live/news/18907-evolution-of-tree-roots-may-have-driven-mass andrewduckerevolution apocalypse extinction trees https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:91c12f3337b1/ Multilingual transliteration corruption 2023-02-15T12:54:35+00:00 https://blog.plover.com/2023/02/15/#greek-consonants andrewduckerlanguage evolution Greece English https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:781d39600f63/ Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption 2022-07-28T12:08:12+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/europeans-milk-consumption-drought-disease-b2132894.html andrewduckermilk evolution humans europe https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:98fa1288579b/ Yay! 60% of Americans aren't Creationists! 2022-07-19T13:19:16+00:00 https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx andrewduckerreligion usa headdesk evolution belief https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c70d7d1da39e/ The joy of no sex: Study of Tibetan monks shows evolutionary advantages of celibacy 2022-06-25T18:05:54+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/tibetan-monks-study-evolution-celibacy-b2107596.html andrewduckerevolution sex celibacy Tibet https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a4f010917575/ Mitochondria and the origin of eukaryotes 2022-06-18T20:47:41+00:00 https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/mitochondria-and-the-origin-of-eukaryotes/ andrewduckerlife evolution bacteria cell https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9b4af55c9960/ Sex with your distant ancestors: bestiality or not? 2022-06-11T07:55:21+00:00 https://andrewducker.tumblr.com/post/686748103719698432/nudityandnerdery-elfwreck-alarajrogers andrewduckerbestiality sex prehistory evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:eb2c694f2d9f/ What Foods Looked Like Before Genetic Modification 2022-05-12T19:03:02+00:00 https://www.businessinsider.com/what-foods-looked-like-before-genetic-modification-2016-1?r=US&IR=T andrewduckerfood evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7b57b8386892/ Male biologists assumed animal vaginas were simple. When women looked they found they were anything but 2022-04-01T13:56:43+00:00 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-have-female-animals-evolved-such-wild-genitals-180979813/ andrewduckervagina animals birds evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f18779dd5cb0/ Evolution can occur really, really rapidly 2022-03-22T08:36:15+00:00 https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/evolution-can-occur-really-really-rapidly/ andrewduckerevolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2a330216b5d0/ Evolution is just amazing 2022-02-13T10:11:12+00:00 https://twitter.com/BSL_MDX/status/1492474396723843077?t=ZpXCboAER9z84EtGkww8gA&s=09 andrewduckerevolution animals snake video insects birds https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:13b50b9012ad/ What the Discovery of an Extra Artery Means for Human Evolution 2022-01-18T19:04:42+00:00 https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-the-discovery-of-an-extra-artery-means-for-human-evolution andrewduckerevolution blood viaNancyLebov https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f24764c0a432/ The ecosystems that grew around animals that no longer exist 2021-12-20T07:35:06+00:00 https://andrewducker.tumblr.com/post/671063629101203456 andrewduckerextinction evolution plants bees animals life https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7954d6009bf6/ Beyond Omicron: what’s next for COVID’s viral evolution 2021-12-09T07:12:41+00:00 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03619-8 andrewduckervirus evolution Pandemic viaPatrickHadfield https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:99ff5a0dc4b0/ No, viruses do not automatically evolve to be less deadly 2021-11-28T09:38:05+00:00 https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1464702299276599296?t=WZxdGyUEbmhRNhLB-tZMqQ&s=09 andrewduckerevolution disease death https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b55cc1e1dbc2/ Everything turns into crabs or weasels 2021-08-30T07:28:04+00:00 https://twitter.com/aeranothaur/status/1380997412391649280 andrewduckeranimals evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:80aa448d58fa/ Evolution is now accepted by a majority of Americans 2021-08-24T04:06:43+00:00 https://phys.org/news/2021-08-evolution-majority-americans.html andrewduckerUSA evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:555677125c4c/ Humans domesticated each other 2021-05-30T15:18:15+00:00 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lapdog andrewduckerhumans animals behaviour evolution comic funny https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1c3bedb57286/ There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) 2021-05-08T15:17:34+00:00 https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/ andrewduckertrees ontology nature evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8729909195eb/ This pretty much sums up how I think brains work 2021-03-20T09:18:02+00:00 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/evolution-8 andrewduckerbrains evolution comic https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8cb753857386/ If you want your systems to be efficient in the long term then they need some slack in them 2020-07-30T13:17:38+00:00 https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/ andrewduckerefficiency evolution competition business https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6452e5f1384a/ Domesticating dogs led to them developing eye muscles to affect our feelings 2020-06-20T07:53:39+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/domestication-gave-dogs-two-new-eye-muscles/591868/ andrewduckeremotions dogs evolution eyes viaSwampers https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7e5f49ab2665/ Urban foxes are becoming more like domesticated dogs 2020-06-03T09:49:46+00:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-52892194 andrewduckerfoxes evolution urban https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:fdaf1c80e969/ Why do dragons have their eyes on the side of their heads? 2020-05-14T06:47:16+00:00 https://galahadwilder.tumblr.com/post/190728409108/when-you-see-an-animal-with-its-eyes-set-to-the andrewduckerdragons evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:090b46ac5826/ "Shaping Humanity" - an artist visualises their evolution from ape to modern day 2020-03-27T18:58:34+00:00 https://youtu.be/ru8ifph_q9o andrewduckerevolution video https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7e7635dd87c2/ The evolutionary reasons why farming is hard 2019-11-23T13:07:56+00:00 https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1197857957192568837?s=09 andrewduckerfarming evolution viaCipherGoth https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c5bbf87e772d/ Maybe Your Zoloft Stopped Working Because A Liver Fluke Tried To Turn Your Nth-Great-Grandmother Into A Zombie 2019-08-21T08:19:58+00:00 https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/08/19/maybe-your-zoloft-stopped-working-because-a-liver-fluke-tried-to-turn-your-nth-great-grandmother-into-a-zombie/ andrewduckerdrugs biology Parasites evolution immune_system https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f16f992088e4/ The Oxygen Catastrophe set the Earth on fire 2.4 billion years ago and ever since then we've been fueled by the flames 2019-07-26T19:59:19+00:00 https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1154827681956937728?s=09 andrewduckeroxygen prehistory evolution life earth https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:664d16ed9289/ There's no such thing as a tree 2019-06-18T08:52:16+00:00 https://twitter.com/FlyingQuercus/status/1140895801943711746?s=09 andrewduckertrees evolution plants names ViaDrCross https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:be4cb1e133c6/ Dogs evolved ‘puppy dog eyes’ to help them get on with humans 2019-06-18T08:25:06+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/puppy-dog-eyes-humans-domestication-facial-structure-university-of-portsmouth-a8961981.html andrewduckerdogs cute evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1114544b0b53/ Long-distance running and evolution: Why humans can outrun horses but can’t jump higher than cats. 2019-04-17T10:27:09+00:00 https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/long-distance-running-and-evolution-why-humans-can-outrun-horses-but-cant-jump-higher-than-cats.html?via=gdpr-consent andrewduckerhumans evolution sports running viaFanf https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:56a57c767389/ Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (because your food is too soft) 2019-03-20T13:37:07+00:00 https://www.sapiens.org/body/human-teeth-evolution/ andrewduckerfood teeth humans evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f3d681255e08/ Fruit has evolved different colours to attract different animal species 2018-09-25T14:50:42+00:00 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32604-x andrewduckerfruit colour food evolution animals https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:32b296184c63/ Life is like the worst maintained software project ever 2018-09-06T07:05:23+00:00 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1037031222164082688?s=09 andrewduckersoftware design evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6d0c1c0703b7/ Humans did not stem from a single ancestral population in one region of Africa 2018-07-12T07:55:42+00:00 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180711114544.htm andrewduckerAfrica evolution humans https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b0396bbca2b8/ Why is Edinburgh University teaching that creationism and evolution are on the same level? 2018-03-27T19:59:20+00:00 https://twitter.com/SteveBrusatte/status/977938056761282561?s=09 andrewduckerEdinburgh university evolution OhForFucksSake https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b9b622e5c7b5/ What is the evolutionary purpose of having periods? 2018-02-26T08:51:38+00:00 https://www.quora.com/Why-do-women-have-periods-What-is-the-evolutionary-benefit-or-purpose-of-having-periods-Why-can%E2%80%99t-women-just-get-pregnant-without-the-menstrual-cycle/answers/4625918 andrewduckermenstruation evolution humans https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b6da5e1e6661/ The real reason humans evolved larger heads 2017-12-22T11:19:50+00:00 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cranium andrewduckerevolution funny comics https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3f5c9b7e5d34/ Birds learn from each other's 'disgust,' enabling insects to evolve bright colors 2017-12-18T18:54:56+00:00 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171218120338.htm andrewduckerevolution birds insects learning https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7a9094d3a56f/ We Are Breeding a World Full of Creatures That Cannot Survive 2017-10-31T08:17:53+00:00 https://futurism.com/breeding-world-creatures-cannot-survive/ andrewduckerevolution fail https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2d9f5ff16e5a/ Meet the hominin species that probably gave us genital herpes 2017-10-02T08:33:04+00:00 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171001225317.htm andrewduckerdisease sex evolution prehistory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:30027c50f66b/ Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving 2017-09-11T10:12:07+00:00 https://www.nature.com/news/massive-genetic-study-shows-how-humans-are-evolving-1.22565 andrewducker
* tested more than 8 million common mutations, and found two that seemed to become less prevalent with age. A variant of the APOE gene, which is strongly linked to Alzheimer’s disease, was rarely found in women over 70. And a mutation in the CHRNA3 gene associated with heavy smoking in men petered out in the population starting in middle age. People without these mutations have a survival edge and are more likely to live longer, the researchers suggest.

* certain groups of genetic mutations, which individually would not have a measurable effect but together accounted for health threats, appeared less often in people who were expected to have long lifespans than in those who weren't. These included predispositions to asthma, high body mass index and high cholesterol.

* Most surprising, however, was the finding that sets of mutations that delay puberty and childbearing are more prevalent in long-lived people.]]> genetics age humans evolution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7ba473cbf509/ An evolutionary biologist dismantles the Google Diversity Memo 2017-08-14T21:00:53+00:00 https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-biological-claims-made-in-the-document-about-diversity-written-by-a-Google-employee-in-August-2017/answer/Suzanne-Sadedin andrewduckergoogle diversity gender brain evolution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d22cc1b424b2/ The Evolution of Trust (Totally worth spending ten minutes playing with) 2017-08-05T16:52:38+00:00 http://ncase.me/trust/ andrewducker evolution games behaviour viaSwampers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:226faa20910c/ It’s not that your teeth are too big: your jaw is too small 2017-08-04T14:41:46+00:00 https://aeon.co/ideas/its-not-that-your-teeth-are-too-big-your-jaw-is-too-small andrewduckerteeth evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e1064f9e8b6d/ The carnivore evolved it's brain entirely separately to all other life 2017-08-04T12:40:48+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ctenophore-says-about-the-evolution-of-intelligence andrewduckerevolution brain life https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:96aa970b467c/ Turkey will stop teaching evolution in schools 2017-06-24T19:46:48+00:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/23/turkey-will-stop-teaching-evolution-schools-education-ministry/ andrewduckerevolution turkey education OhForFucksSake https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:11ab39baa04a/ Whales are the largest animals on Earth. Now we know why they got so big 2017-05-26T10:13:29+00:00 http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-whale-evolution-20170523-story.html andrewduckeranimals ocean prehistory evolution climatechange https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:db493d0d996d/ Evolution Runs Faster on Short Timescales 2017-05-24T10:10:25+00:00 https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170314-time-dependent-rate-phenomenon-evolution-viruses/ andrewduckerevolution time virus dna viaSwampers https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d92bca73f54d/ How the whale evolved 2017-05-13T20:34:00+00:00 http://www.coroflot.com/jordancollver/Kaleidoscope-educational andrewduckerevolution viaSwampers animation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6fad63fcf221/ How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution 2017-04-23T14:58:41+00:00 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/04/evolution-genetics-medicine-brain-technology-cyborg/ andrewduckerbiology evolution genetics cyborg thefuture https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cb84a2498bde/ Dragon Phylogeny 2017-04-23T14:10:28+00:00 http://m.imgur.com/gallery/P60xE andrewduckerdragons biology evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:17f617d6f356/ Share of people that thinks that humans have evolved from other animals vs GDP per capita 2017-04-22T22:05:23+00:00 https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/855868745927053319?s=09 andrewduckerevolution belief usa OhForFucksSake https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0a2fd4f5d20a/ When ideology trumps biology 2017-03-30T09:34:24+00:00 https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/when-ideology-trumps-biology/ andrewduckerbiology sex evolution research https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9ed1b2f29a1b/