Evolution
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A Great Time to Be Large: There have never been larger animals and plants than now
I’d have loved to see Pleistocene megafauna like the mammoth with my own eyes, and maybe one day I will. In the meantime, I am…
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The Sorcerer II
Around the time I was doing my PhD, J. Craig Venter was one of the most talked about scientists on the planet. At some point,…
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Life Prefers Ice: Low temperatures are more compatible with order
Robert Frost holds with those who say the world will end in fire. Freeman Dyson was agnostic on whether the world will end in fire…
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Our Biotech Future that Didn’t Happen
I once attended a week-long meeting in Heidelberg. The topic was Science and Society and the organizer was Sheila Jasanoff, an academic whose work focuses…
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California: Great for Trees
Why does California have the tallest, biggest and oldest trees? Coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are the tallest trees on Earth, reaching 116 meters. Their range…
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Give Chance a Chance
Heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes kill many of us and are highly heritable, yet identical twins rarely die of the same cause, even though…
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