#human adaptation

Caturday Special: The Giant Cheetah, Acinonyx pardinensis

A comparison of a modern cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus – foreground) and the giant cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis – background) based on a sketch by Mauricio Anton – (Credit: Source unknown, used without permission.) If you’ve been following my cat content you will know that my all-time favourite cat is the cheetah. I put domestic cat as number one in our Top Ten Cats list because, besides the lion,…

How do aging bodies, moral attention, and sensory memory reshape what matters as we grow older? In this wide-ranging exchange, Scott Douglas Jacobsen invites Rick Rosner to reflect on aging, attention, and meaning. Rosner moves fluidly from bodily changes—napping, gray hair, and the “frowny belly button”—to grief, diminished sexual expectation, and the unsettling realization of becoming the…

The book Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Liveby Marlene Zuk was written as retort to the nonsense that attempts to attach itself to science, anthropology, and human health. It is written by a practicing scientist…