Los Angeles Review of BooksFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBooks The Search for What Makes Us Human: The Killer Ape Account of the Mid-20th Centurylareviewofbooks.org - By Melinda Baldwin SPEND SOME TIME thinking about human nature and you’ll inevitably end up grappling with contradictory evidence for what makes us tick. On the one …
Houston Chronicleadded this to Trending Houston headlinesHouston, TX Monday letters: Great theater, great performances, just enjoy it!houstonchronicle.com Regarding “The battle over ‘Jerome Robbins’ Broadway’” (Preview, June 7): I had the distinct pleasure of viewing this production last evening at our …
MMarge DeLeoadded this to Popular scienceHeart Attacks A Genetic Mutation Could Save You From A Heart Attack | Popular SciencePopular ScienceThough they may come as a surprise, heart attacks don't just happen at random—chances are, years of poor diet and not enough exercise set the stage for a heart attack to occur. Over the past few years,
NBC Newsadded this to Pop CultureDark Phoenix 'X-Men: Dark Phoenix': How genetic mutation works in the real worldNBC News The newest X-Men film, "Dark Phoenix," explores the dark side of mutation. In the real world, just as in the X-Men universe, genetic mutations can have a big effect on our lives. This is Mach at the movies.
Culture Decantedadded this to Culture DecantedHumanity Modern humans may be evolving to deal with carbohydrate-rich dietsThe Economist A new version of an old gene is spreading through the gene pool IT IS EASY to assume that the long march of evolution has halted in modern man—that …
Migraines Curiosity — Migraines May Be a Side Effect of a Helpful...curiosity.com - tumblr.curiosity.com If there’s one thing most misunderstand about evolution, it’s the idea of continuous improvement. Evolution doesn’t care about improving on or …
Marcel Henryadded this to We Never Asked For Any Of This........ Why humans (or something very similar) may have been destined to walk the EarthThe Conversation UK - James S. Horton and Tiffany Taylor What would happen if the hands of time were turned back to an arbitrary point in our evolutionary history and we restarted the clock? American …
The Conversation UKScience Education Evolution: as a religious professor of science education, we need to rethink how we teach itThe Conversation UK - Michael Reiss Evolution is near universally regarded by the scientific community as a cornerstone of modern biology. Treating it as anything other than …
Schizophrenia The evolution of schizophreniaunimelb.edu.au - Cheryl Critchley, University of Melbourne New research has found that human evolution is gradually removing the genetic risk factors associated with schizophrenia from the modern human genome. …
MsCuttsScienceadded this to EvolutionScience Pathogens may have facilitated the evolution of warm-blooded animalsphys.org - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Six hundred million years ago, fever appeared in animals as a response to infections: the higher body temperatures optimized their immune systems. At …
Quantum_Realityadded this to Space, Science, & TechnologyFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBiological Species Philosophy of Macroevolution (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)stanford.edu The classic paper on punctuated equilibria (PE) was co-authored by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould (1972), although Eldredge (1971) was …
Falconadded this to Animal CutiesScience Animals' cultural lifestyles can influence evolutionphys.org - University of St Andrews Evolutionary adaptations resulting from cultural change, such as humans being able to consume dairy products, are more widespread in nature than …
The Washington Postadded this to OpinionsMichael Mann The evolution of self-destruction in one simple diagramThe Washington Post - By Tom Toles
Creationism Evolution Myth and Neo-Darwinism on Trialspreaker.com - Jim Duke Radio Network There you go. Your guest just ADMITTED that they are rejecting ALL known science (specifically evolution) as your guest, and you, want your BIble …
Arkansas Creationists v. Arkansasarktimes.com - Guy Lancaster Do you have a right to your beliefs? It’s a question that sounds strange, almost heretical to us Americans, but in his 1874 essay “The Ethics of …
HowStuffWorksadded this to ScienceScience Iterative Evolution: How the White-throated Rail Evolved Twicehowstuffworks.com - Mark Mancini Out in the Indian Ocean, 248 miles (400 kilometers) to the northwest of Madagascar, there's a shallow lagoon encircled by a ring of islands. Those …
KKevin Lavigneadded this to Genetics & evolutionNeanderthals Europeans looked down on Neanderthals—until they realized they shared their DNAPopular Science - Angela SainiWhen we can’t find what we want in the present, we go back, and back further still, until there, at the dawn of time, we imagine we’ve found it. In the gloomy mists of the past, having squeezed ourselves
MsCuttsScienceadded this to Scientists & ProcessSelf-Censorship Self-Censorship on Campus Is Bad for Sciencerealclearscience.com - Luana Maroja I have taught evolution and genetics at Williams College for about a decade. For most of that time, the only complaints I got from students were …
LLuis Llerenaadded this to My TEDsScience Evolution of Walking Upright Linked to Ancient Supernova in Weird New TheoryInverse - By Peter Hess A massive star explosion 2.6 million years ago may be the reason we walk on two feet. Carl Sagan famously said, “We are made of star stuff.” For …
New Scientistadded this to New ScientistBiology The evolution of Archaeopteryx is stranger than anyone imaginednewscientist.com - By Michael Marshall ARCHAEOPTERYX has been an icon of palaeontology for over 150 years. Its discovery, a few years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, …
Forbesadded this to TechnologyPlay buttonAntibiotics Scientists Tracked Evolution Of Antibiotic Resistance In Real TimeForbes - JV ChamaryMany people don’t believe in evolution. Only one-third of Americans say it occurs through processes like natural selection and no involvement by God. But besides religion, there are several reasons why
Passionfish12added this to AROUND THE HOUSEAmazon Amazon just launched a $90, 5.5-inch Echo ShowTechCrunch - Brian HeaterAmazon just announced a 5.5-inch Echo Show model with a $90 price tag, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention right out of the gate how much the thing looks like that new Google Assistant-sporting Smart
Godzilla Godzilla is back and he's bigger than ever: The evolutionary biology of the monster | EurekAlert! Science Newseurekalert.org - www.eurekalert.org Godzilla first made his debut in 1954. At inception, he was a 50-meter tall metaphor for indiscriminate destruction, particularly U.S. hydrogen-bomb …
Massiveadded this to Science StoriesScience Evolution is elegant but not when it's in David Sloan Wilson's handsmassivesci.com - Devang Mehta The idea of a world run by scientists is a conceit I — like many other scientists — have occasionally indulged in. It’s hard not to, in a world …
BBryan Schutteadded this to Must readsKids Curious Kids: are humans going to evolve again?theconversation.com - Darren Curnoe Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might …
Extraordinary Challenges: How Software Industry Leaders Can Prepare for the Booming Trillion Dollar Market | IEEE Computercomputer.org - www.computer.org As the software industry accelerates at breakneck speed, the global market is poised to reach one trillion dollars by 2030, analysts say. A lot is …
BBryan Schutteadded this to Must readsRobotics Programming the forces of evolutionphys.org - Bradley Van Paridon The genius of evolution is rarely seen in action, so the invisible hand guiding the direction of biological systems is often taken for granted. …
BBryan Schutteadded this to Must readsDiversity Study reveals the evolution and diversity of Leptospira bacteriaphys.org - Public Library of Science Leptospirosis is an emerging zoonotic disease that affects more than one million people around the world each year. Researchers reporting in PLOS …
Lordbregaadded this to Lordbrega’s Space, Science & NatureScience It's Time to Slow Human Evolution Down Before It's Too LateInverse - By Alasdair Mackenzie Evolution has been getting an easy ride for far too long. Measles cases in the US have hit a 25-year high, with 78 new infections at the beginning of …
Ars Technicaadded this to Ars TechnicaFossils We probably don’t descend from Australopithecus sedibaArs Technica - Kiona N. Smith There's less than a 1% chance Australopithecus sediba led to the genus Homo. Sometime around 2 million years ago, a group of bipedal hominins in …
