Tag: science
Evolution as Carpenter: Scientist Concludes Repetitive Elements “Are an Important Toolkit”
According to a UCL molecular neuroscientist, a complicated process allows evolution to experiment and evolve more complicated species.
From Genome to Body Plan: A Mystery
How do you get from a one-dimensional code to a three-dimensional, hierarchical structure that can operate in the fourth dimension of time?
Machine Intimacy Would Take the Evolutionary Mindset to Its Logical Outcome
There are some inflection points, cultural and life bends, that, when you encounter them, should make you pause and reassess the landscape.
“Happy Salmon” and Other Wonders of the Fish World’s Migrating Marvel
Salmon may not be happy when we eat them, but we’re happy learning about them.
Listen: Brian Miller on Letting Alien Feet in the Door to Keep a Divine Foot Out
Harvard geneticist Richard Lewontin famously insisted that science must never let a “divine foot in the door.”