Tag: China
Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia
The reason all these new discoveries are so noteworthy is not because they represent the usual progress of science.
Eugenics Revisited: Scientists on the Verge of Genetically Engineering Babies
CRISPR is the most powerful technology invented since the splitting of the atom.
Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder
Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.
Meet the Fuxianhuiids: Exploding Cambrian Arthropods
True arthropods are among the most sophisticated animals that appeared without ancestors in the Cambrian explosion.
Newly Identified Banded Iron Formation Puts Origins Theories on Horns of a Dilemma
Many claim the Cambrian explosion was triggered by a sudden global increase in oxygen levels.