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Thursday, October 30, 2025
TopicEvolution

Topic: evolution

A drunkard-at-a-pub analogy explains how animals and humans evolved

We are highly mistaken to believe that life evolved in a straight line from simple to complex. But the real path to complexity is more tortuous.

Different but similar — fungi, whales, trees, humans grow the same way, study suggests

The study, conducted by researchers at ICTA-UAB in Barcelona, finds that growth, not metabolism, is the common pattern that ties all complex life together.

A 3.8 million-year-old skull is the hottest topic right now & changing how we view ourselves

The new discovery also challenges the idea of Lucy’s species being the ancestor of all later Australopithecus hominins, which eventually led to humans.

Humans aren’t naturally designed to be happy

The happiness and positive-thinking industry is worth $11 billion a year, but happiness is an abstract idea with no equivalent in actual human experience.

Humans (or something similar) were always destined to walk the Earth

The broad “rules” for evolution would remain the same no matter how many times we replayed the tape.

We must stop human evolution right now. It’s our moral obligation

We remain at the mercy of natural selection, the least moral way for a species to develop.

Charles Darwin, the British scientist conservatives love to hate

On his 210th birth anniversary, ThePrint profiles Charlies Darwin, one of the world's greatest scientists and the man behind the theory of evolution.

Why some humans are born to have a beer belly

It’s all part of the human story — evolution, epigenetics and the eternal human quest for a better life.

We need to treat our body the way responsible dog owners treat their dog

Exercise and activity are important parts of living the lives humans are meant to live from an evolutionary standpoint.

We have weaker bones than our hunter-gatherer ancestors. This is what you can do about it

Advancing technology has made our lives sedentary. It has an impact on our body and, specifically, our bones.

On Camera

Russia’s super-missile test shows a new, expensive technological race—with dire outcomes

The test raises a question. Why have Russian nuclear strategists now invested in the Burevestnik, when the US abandoned nuclear ramjet propulsion in 1964?

Karnataka, Telangana, TN, Maharashtra power 40% of services output, pan-India growth uneven—NITI Aayog

Report on India's services sector examines state-level dynamics, maps disparities and suggests ways to tap into the sector’s potential.

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.