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No evidence that the shift to farming made males and females more physically similar

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 02:11 PM PDT

Scientists have proposed that males and females started to become more similar in size and shape after the origin of farming due to natural selection. However, a new evolutionary and genomic analysis finds no evidence that this occurred.

Fossil secret may shed light on the diversity of Earth's first animals

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 06:14 AM PDT

A large group of iconic fossils widely believed to shed light on the origins of many of Earth's animals and the communities they lived in may be hiding a secret. Scientists have modeled how exceptionally well preserved fossils that record the largest and most intense burst of evolution ever seen could have been moved by mudflows.