Evolution
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Other Minds
My five-year-old daughter said that spiders are insects and I was almost sure that they weren’t until she showed me a worksheet her kindergarten teacher…
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Wanted: Time
So much universe, and so little time Terry Pratchett Here are three observations that’d I’d love to spend a few weeks to investigate further, spending…
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Against Epigenetics
In the 1960s, biologist James McConnell conditioned worms to respond to light flashes, then ground them up and fed them to other worms. He reported…
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Bionumbers
I’m a geneticist by profession, but too often, I realize that I don’t know some of the basic facts. How many RNA molecules are there…
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Coherence Tradeoffs
There is an optimal intermediate degree of fragmentation, that a too-unified society is a disadvantage, and a too-fragmented society is also a disadvantage Jared Diamond…
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Adaptationism
The next time you’re in a room full of biologists and you want to start a shouting match, ask them about junk DNA. While everyone…
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