Gut Infection. Gastroeteritis or the stomach flu can be caused by a virus, bacteria or parasites and causes inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract. Besides white poop, this infection can also cause chills, fever, vomiting, achiness, diarrhea or abdominal pain.
Last Updated: Human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing, upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago.
In other words, evolution and the second law of thermodynamics can live together in harmony. Keep Reading Below One of the most persistent myths, however, concerns the relationship of humans to great apes, a group of primates that includes the gorilla, orangutan and chimpanzee. Someone who believes the myth will say, If evolution exists, then humans must be descended directly from apes. Apes must have changed, step by step, into humans. This same person will often follow up with this observation: If apes 'turned into' humans, then apes should no longer exist.