Evolution

Summer time is family reunion time. No need to be a genealogist or anthropologist to know where you are in relation to other family members. Showcase this cousin tree with genetic kinship percentage in the upper right hand corner of each relationship with any of these gifts! Memorable educational biological lineage gifts for family reunions and to keep track of who exactly is your first or second cousin!

You are a Homo sapien, and therefore belong to the superfamily Hominoidea. But, sometimes, you just have to ask yourself and others this key question: "Which Hominoid Are You?" Gifts featuring various skeletons within the Hominoid family. Memorable evolutionary humor gifts for all who exhibit ape-like behavior at times!

No need to be an evolutionary biologist to be a fan of Charles Darwin. If you understand Darwin's monumental contributions to science and to evolutionary thought, which were radical in his day, you'll enjoy any of these gifts featuring a Charles Darwin collage, complete with picture of Charles Darwin, a rudimentary phylogenetic tree, and the HMS Beagle.

Evolution is part of life, part of biology, part of ourselves. For example, whether we like it or not, we all descended from someone else. Ever heard of Mitochondrial Eve?

If you have heard of Mitochondrial Eve and understand that the entire human population probably descended from an African woman who lived with other people many thousands of years ago, then you'll probably enjoy these gifts:






If you've heard of Mitochondrial Eve, then you've probably heard of the single origin multiple dispersal hypothesis. This hypothesis states there was a single origin (Mitochondrial Eve) and then the human population dispersed from Africa from that point on in different populations, explaining why Haplogroup M and Haplogroup N are located in different areas of the world.






In the greater scheme of things, you could argue that we are all from out-of-Africa:






Of course, no matter how much you are interested in human evolution, you'll have to admit that everyone's genealogical tree looks like the following:






Perhaps, it is key to know how you are evolving. You can ask others about how they are evolving with a sense of style:






It's always a good idea to see the evolution of your life from broad perspectives of evolution. For example, do you view life as passing gradually in a lock-step fashion, or do you view life as having steps, with slow parts and then fast moving jumps in sequences? Or perhaps you view life from both perspectives, from both phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium perspectives?






Regardless, you'll know that there is a different between theory and practice. Take the Hardy-Weinberg principle. Take away its assumptions in theoretical population genetics and everyone will know that there cannot be a population equilibrium. Most of all, some of its assumptions are somewhat bizarre, especially when applied to the human race:






Regardless of what you do for a living and how you have evolved over time, you should know which homonoid you truly are: