![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Studying evolution can actually answer a lot of questions you never thought you would ask, like why pregnant women don’t tip over, a study that won Lieberman a sarcastic Ig Nobel prize in 2009. While connecting evolution to myopia might seem like a stretch, Daniel Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist who teaches at Harvard, did just that, and convincingly too, at a recent talk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. They weren’t such a problem until a few hundred years ago, when cultural changes began to outpace human evolution. What do diabetes, nearsightedness and flat feet have in common? Can flexibility help species avoid extinction? Rebecca Cudmore
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