Evolution
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Terraforming
Getting to Mars is hard and may take longer than we anticipate. Terraforming it in any meaningful way is going to be even harder and…
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Questions about Domestication
There are 3,900 species of mammals outside of rodents, yet we have only domesticated 15-20. Similarly, there are 12,000 species of grass, yet we have…
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Neanderthal News: Three surprising things about Neanderthals
Stone Age Herbalist lists what we have recently learned about Neanderthals. Here are the most interesting developments:
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AI in Biology: Limited as long as it can’t do experiments
AI will soon design effective and safe drugs for any ailment. At least that’s commonly assumed, and on the surface it’s a reasonable prediction. After…
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The Game of Life: John Horton Conway’s cellular automata
The board game Go is famous for having extremely simple rules yet having an almost unlimited number of ways to play it. The mathematician John…
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Kraken: We’re curiously uncurious about the world’s largest invertebrates
Colossal squids are probably the world’s largest invertebrates and we know next to nothing about them. We have only ever caught about a dozen complete…
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