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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 18 2012 - 7:32pm

Steven Pinker Against Group Selection Or Against Evolution?

A new edge-essay by Steven Pinker is bound to lead to vehement reactions: The False Allure of Group Selection. It is worth a read – Pinker is a clear writer and so his position is easy to locate, however, I get the feeling that his position is to smooth t ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 19 2012 - 2:39am

KNM-ER Updated: Pleistocene Fossils Shed New Light On Early Human Evolution

A face, a remarkably complete lower jaw, and part of a second lower jaw  are exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana which confirm that there were two additional species of our genus living alongside our direct human ancestral species, Homo er ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2012 - 4:00pm

Are Animals Intelligent... Enough?

A recent, fascinating recent study is  Decoding Animal Languages, by Con Slobodchikoff.  At one level, it is an inspiring demonstration of how new technologies can liberate us from preconceptions and open new avenues of empathy, helping humans to understa ...

Article - David Brin - Aug 22 2012 - 6:29pm

Cerataspis Monstrosa: 180 Year Old Biology Mystery Solved

For more than 180 years, the origin of Cerataspis monstrosa- monster larva- has been a mystery as deep as the ocean waters it comes from. Researchers have been trying track down the larva that has shown up in the guts of other fish over time but found no ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2012 - 9:54am

What Is Heritability?

"Heritability" is a term used in many articles and through much of the scientific literature and invariably promotes the idea that it relates specifically to inherited traits.  As a result, it is often assumed that the heritability of a particula ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Sep 8 2012 - 10:38am

Natural Selection And Microbiota

There is no question that Darwin's tremendous insight into the mechanisms by which evolution occurred was one of the singularly most significant events in biology.  Similarly with the discovery of DNA and genetics, the processes by which organisms wer ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Apr 22 2013 - 7:31am

Open Letter To Bostrom And NASA's Richard Terrile: Evolution Wrong, Fossils Planted?

The idea that we are inside a simulation is true anyway (if we define “simulation” as being described as emergent from a computational substrate). Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford University’s 'Future of Humanity Institute', and others became fa ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 14 2014 - 1:39am

Beneficial FADS Mutations Preceded Migration Of Modern Humans

    “Anatomically modern humans” (AMH), or the first subspecies which bore the closest resemblance to modern humans, lived in Africa approximately 200,000 years ago (the exact time frame is a point of contention for most archaelogists, but we'll stick ...

Article - Eve Hardy - Oct 19 2012 - 4:48pm

How Female Promiscuity Can Be The Smart Move In Evolution

Researchers have discovered that females with multiple sexual partners can be more fertile than those that are monogamous, and this because of an “overproduction” of sons.  The study,  published as a provisional article but already one of the most accessed ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Oct 14 2012 - 6:24pm