evolution

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  4/16/2022
  

  Darwin's Enduring Hold on Our Imaginations

  by Tom Chaffin

  The excitement that greeted the return of missing notebooks by the British naturalist reflect the fact that his work, while foundational, remains both controversial and poorly understood. 

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• SOURCE: Nature
  4/12/2022
  

  Campus CRT Battles Recall 1920s Evolution Fight

  by Adam Laats

  Faculty and teachers who want to fight back against the Critical Race Theory panic can take the high ground by stressing the importance of quality research and teaching, if the 1920s are a guide. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/8/2022
  

  The Paradox of Sourness

  Of all the major taste categories, the relationship between human thriving and sensing sourness is the least understood. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/23/2021
  

  The Conservative War on Education that Failed

  by Adam Laats

  "A full century ago, the most effective school-ban campaign in American history set the pattern: noise, fury, rancor, and fear, but not much change in what schools actually teach."

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• 10/20/19
  

  Can Studying Human Evolution Help Us Understand Impeachment?

  by David P. Barash

  What The Goodness Paradox can teach us about the importance of enforcing societal norms. 

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• 4/21/19
  

  The History of the Meaning of Life

  by Michael Ruse

  And how we can find meaning in a "Darwinian existentialism.”

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  4-23-18
  

  Human Evolution: Walking Upright Evolved at Least 3.6 Million Years Ago—Long Before Modern Humans Appeared

  Evolutionary anthropologist David Raichlen and his colleagues from the University of Arizona, examined 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints recently discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania, which represent the earliest direct evidence of hominin bipedalism.

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• 6-25-17
  

  A Key Turning Point in Darwin’s Thinking – And It Didn’t Happen in the Galapagos Islands

  by Isobel Charman

  It happened in a London zoo.

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• SOURCE: OUPblog
  3-19-17
  

  Human evolution: why we’re more than great apes

  by Robin Dunbar

  In this shortened excerpt from "Human Evolution: Our Brains and Our Behavior," evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar explains the link between culture and the human brain—and how that connection distinguishes us from other primates.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-14-16
  

  Why we’ve been looking at human evolution in the wrong way

  by Robert A. Foley

  Why being human can't be traced back to hunting, fire or any other single event.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  2-18-16
  

  Earliest Neanderthal-Human Interbreeding Evidence Found

  Co-led by Professor Adam Siepel from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on Long Island, NY, the team found evidence of interbreeding dating back to approximately 100,000 years in the past – several millennia before any other existing documented interbreeding event.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  10-31-15
  

  Fossils of a New Ape Species Cause Rethink of Evolution

  The animal to which the bones belonged lived 11.6 million years ago, according to the researchers who analysed it, an international team from the Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and George Washington University.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  3-6-15
  

  The new thinking about evolution and how it took place

  by David Barash

  Our ancestors had to deal with fire, ice, meteors, poison gas, radiation, predators, starvation, changes in habitat, war and more—each leaving traces in our DNA today.r

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• 2-9-15
  

  The Key to the Success of Homo Sapiens

  by Yuval Noah Harari

  In a one-on-one brawl, a Neanderthal would probably have beaten a Sapiens. But in a conflict of hundreds, Neanderthals wouldn’t stand a chance. Why? Sapiens possess the ability to create fictions.

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• SOURCE: Wired
  12-17-14
  

  Fantastically Wrong: What Darwin Really Screwed Up About Evolution

  by Matt Simon

  "There was a bit of a problem with all of this natural selection stuff, though: Darwin didn’t know how it, uh, worked."

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• SOURCE: archaeologynewsnetwork
  10-22-14
  

  Origins of sex discovered

  A profound new discovery by palaeontologist, Flinders University Professor John Long, reveals how the intimate act of sexual intercourse first evolved in our deep distant ancestors.

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• Why Scientists Decided to Issue an Indictment of Nicholas Wade's Book

  by Jerry A. Coyne

  There is no evidence for Wade’s main thesis: that differences in behavior among groups, and in the disparate societies they construct, are based on genetic differences.

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• 8-17-14
  

  Nicholas Wade's Blurring the Line Between Science and Fantasy

  by Michael Eisen

  "It terrifies me that more people will follow Wade’s lead and use the reality of genetic variation and natural selection in humans to justify to themselves."

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• 12-17-13
  

  Will Humanity Become Extinct Within the Next Generation?

  by Dahr Jamail

  Indeed, climate change may not just trigger human extinction -- it could mean the end of all life on Earth.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  11-7-13
  

  Alfred Russell Wallace honoured by statue and new wasp genus

  The first ever statue of the naturalist will be unveiled at the Natural History Museum by Sir David Attenborough.