NewScientist Evolution
- Hydrogen bombshell: Rewriting life's history
- Ancient crocodile chewed like a mammal
- Reptilians were the earliest North American pioneers
- Bellyflopping frogs shed light on evolution
- Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass
- Skull tells tale of the lost primates of the Caribbean
- On the origin of species – by means of pheromones
- Secrets of backboned life found on undersea mountains
- Warm climates boost bird beak size
- How plants get by when pollinators vanish
Culture
Evolutietheorie in de 21ste eeuw
Begonnen aan een pagina over de steeds interessanter wordende kritiek op de Darwin-adepten die evolutie gelijk blijven stellen aan natuurlijke selectie en het genetisch determinisme hoog in het vaandel hebben staan. Het boeiende boek van Eva Jablonka & Marion Lamb uit 2005: Evolution in Four Dimensions (te weten: Genetica – Epigenetica – Gedrag – Cultuur), sluit mooi... »
Marx’s footnote on Malthus from Das Kapital
If the reader reminds me of Malthus, whose ” Essay on Population ” appeared in 1798, I remind him that this work in its first form is nothing more than a schoolboyish, superficial plagiary of De Foe, Sir James Steuart, Townsend, Franklin, Wallace, &c., and does not contain a single sentence thought out by... »
Wat was er voor twitter en facebook?
Evolutiebiologe Nina Jablonski vraagt zich af hoe het ons gelukt is in één decennium 40 miljoen jaar evolutie ongedaan te maken… Nina Jablonski encourages us to stop Twittering, start touching »
The Earliest Pornography?
An ivory statuette of a well-endowed woman discovered in Germany suggests that humanity’s earliest art might have been of the erotic variety. Digging in a cave near Stuttgart last fall, University of Tübingen archaeologist Nicholas Conard unearthed what he says is the most ancient representation of a human female yet found–and, at more than... »