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At an independent high school in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rocio Soto teaches biology and human anatomy, connecting modern physiology to ancestral traits. She writes for Biology Insights on human evolution and our place in the animal world. Soto received a BS in life sciences from Northern Michigan University.

Why Is Curly Hair an Evolutionary Advantage?
If Humans Evolved From Apes, Why Are There Still Apes?
What Is the Outgroup in a Cladogram?
What Is a Phylum? Its Role in Biological Classification
How Did Humans Evolve to Be So Intelligent?
What Are Physiological Adaptations? A Definition & Examples
What Are Derived Characteristics? Definition & Examples
What Is the Primordial Soup Theory?
Why Are Humans Hairless? An Evolutionary Explanation
Are We Fish? Our Evolutionary Connection
What Will Humans Look Like in 3000 Years?
Why Humans Are Multicellular: Biology and Evolution
Are Humans Still Evolving Today? And How It’s Happening
What Is a Derived Character in Biology?
What Is Cephalization in Biology and Why Does It Matter?
Why Did Humans Lose Fur? An Evolutionary Explanation
What Would Humans Look Like if They Lived Underwater?
What If Humans Evolved From Other Animals?
What Are Some Physiological Adaptations?
How Does Anatomy Provide Evidence for Evolution?
What Is the Next Step in Human Evolution?
Why Did Neanderthals Have Bigger Brains?
Why Do We Have Facial Hair? Biology and Evolution
What 3 Criteria Determine Homology vs. Analogy?
How Did Early Humans Adapt to Their Environment?
Is the Human Brain Still Evolving?
Do Humans Still Evolve and How Are We Changing?
Why Are Human Babies So Helpless? An Evolutionary Advantage
Why Do People Have Butts? The Biological Purpose
What Will Humans Look Like in 100,000 Years?