Finally, a panda story I can get on board with:
Pandas: Evolution's big fat (adorable) mistake?
Their unlikely perseverance seems to argue against 'survival of the fittest'
Oh, well -- despite the encouraging headline, it's mainly an article about how the panda really isn't as maladapted as it may seem.
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JOHN HAWKS is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I was trained as a paleoanthropologist, studying human evolution from an integrative perspective. My research focuses on the processes affecting human genetic evolution across the last 6 million years.
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