Category: Science
If Darwin Came Back Today…
What would the gentleman of Down House think about the science of the 21st century?
More Ways that Human and Ape Brains Differ
Underlying the significant differences in brain — to say nothing of the vast difference in mind — is a genetic mystery.
Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Probability Theory Is Irrelevant
If you deny that probabilities apply to a physical process, you’ve abjured science — you no longer have a scientific theory.
Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid
Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill.
Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause”?
The discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms.