Evolution
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Kári Stefánsson: Cantankerous and inspiring
None of the encounters I’ve had with Kári Stefánsson have been pleasant. I remember taking a walk with him in Heidelberg many years ago, when…
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Wrangel Island Mammoths: The last ones died 4,000 years ago
For hundreds of years after the pyramids of Giza had been completed, mammoths still roamed Wrangel Island off the northern coast of Siberia. Around the…
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The Evolution of Everything: Creation is overrated
The Evolution of Everything isn’t Matt Ridley’s best book, but it has sections that are among the most thought-provoking writing I’ve come across. The theme…
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The Funny Side of Cancer: JBS Haldane’s poem on colorectal cancer
He – literally – dove into danger to study life’s mysteries, from the depths of the sea to the edge of the stars. His mind…
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Birds, Sex & Beauty: Matt Ridley’s new book on sexual selection
We’ve been on earth all these years and we still don’t know for certain why birds sing […] If the lyric is simply “mine mine…
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Mammals are Prose; Birds are Poetry
It dawned on me that my species probably does not really know the half of it about beauty. Not like the birds do and other…
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