

Paleoanthropologists – scientists who study human evolution – have proposed a variety of ideas about how environmental conditions may have stimulated important developments in human origins. Natural selection was not always a matter of ‘survival of the fittest’ but also survival of those most adaptable to changing surroundings. Rick Potts of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program. This idea was developed during research conducted by Dr. This article explores the hypothesis that key human adaptations evolved in response to environmental instability. Science, Religion, Evolution and Creationism: Primer.Members Thoughts on Science, Religion & Human Origins (video).


