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A “Bioessentialist” View of Life
James Barham is doing something genuinely illuminating and new at his blog.
Thinking of Animal Rights on Father’s Day
Apes can’t read, but you can.
Math Meets Music
The Golden Ratio is not only aesthetically pleasing in art and architecture, it is found throughout nature in sunflowers, conch shells and spiral galaxies.
Predicting the Formation of Virtually Identical Species
A new study in Nature claims that scientists can predict the extent to which a clade will speciate by studying its environmental niche and the prevalence of sexual selection.
Bateman’s Sexual Selection: Another Darwinian Pillar Falls
It was a classic experiment that generated a catchy phrase and launched a paradigm.