haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year agoModern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individualswww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: science@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansanthropology@mander.xyz
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkModern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individualswww.nature.comhaxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansanthropology@mander.xyz
minus-squaredb2linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThe start of an evolutionary trait generally comes from one individual that found it beneficial for procreation in some way, so depending on what you’re looking at we can be narrowed down to one.
minus-squareirdc@derp.foolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s kind of simplistic: some traits are initially neutral and only show their usefulness later on.
The start of an evolutionary trait generally comes from one individual that found it beneficial for procreation in some way, so depending on what you’re looking at we can be narrowed down to one.
That’s kind of simplistic: some traits are initially neutral and only show their usefulness later on.