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In recent years, the North American nut butter market has emerged as a rich case study in how consumer tastes, health trends, and digital distribution channels intersect to reshape a food category. Forecasts suggest the market

This post explores three key forces driving the market’s expansion:

1. The evolution of consumer dietary preferences

2. Product innovation aligned with wellness and convenience

3. The rise of e-commerce as a transformative distribution channel

I invite others in this forum to reflect, critique, or bring in related parallels from other food sectors or geographies.

            The human eye has often been made a target by creationists as an organ that is supposedly “too complex to have evolved” and thus an example of evidence against evolution by natural selection. The argument typically goes something along the lines of that having “only half an eye” is useless and that because every part of the eye needs to be in place for it to work, the complexity of the organ seems to be too great to have evolved over time (Evolution of the eye, n.d.). Indeed, the eye is a deeply fascinating organ. However, as with all parts of the human body, its development can be explained based on external stimuli selecting for certain favorable traits within a population of our ancestors over time, in this case those traits being associated with improved visual detection capability.

            Returning for a moment to the concept of having only…

It’s crazy right? To think that we, as humans, evolved from apes. From ape, to anthropoid, to humanoid, to hominin to humans. However, no matter how unbelievable this might seem at first, the scientific evidence supporting this claim is irrefutable. And orangutans are our cousins! Well, evolutionarily speaking at least. But questions may remain, for example, how could we have evolved from apes to develop advanced societies with culture and technology? And if we evolved from apes, why are there apes still in existence, shouldn’t they have all become humans? To answer these questions and more, we need to examine the genetic origin of humanity to prove once and for all that when scientists say the “theory of evolution” they are referring to evolution as a set of scientific axioms, not as a hypothetical, unproven idea.

What is a Theory?

You’ve probably heard someone say before that, we can’t trust…