Barbara Simpson

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that chronic stress and many modern health issues are the result of an evolutionary mismatch between our primarily nature-adapted biology and the industrialized environments we now inhabit. The paper is published in the journal Biological Reviews.

Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study is available within the DesignSafe repository with project ID PRJ-5736 (Barbosa et al. 2025).

The dinosaur that welcomes visitors to the Natural History Museum harbors a fascinating history. Researchers have identified a severe bone infection in the dinosaur, which lived around 220 million years ago in Switzerland and met a sticky end in the mud. During the Late Triassic period, some 220 million years ago, a nearly eight-meter-long Plateosaurus roamed among the giant horsetails that stood two meters tall in what is now the Frick Valley in the canton of Aargau.