An answer to the ‘Nature vs Nurture’ Debate?
Savage-Rumbaugh’s work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology — and how much by cultural exposure.
August 6th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
Did the ingredients for Life come from Space?
Ice and organic chemicals found on an asteroid back the theory that asteroids provided the Earth with the bare necessities of life
Astronomers have detected a coating of ice and organic chemicals on one of the largest asteroids in the solar system.
From the Guardian
The space rock, called 24 Themis,...
July 28th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
Cooking, Fire and Human Evolution
Did Learning to Cook Push Our Ancestors Toward Modernity?
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Intriguing evidence shows that cooking may have been the spark that set human evolution blazing toward higher intelligence and civilization.
It has long been a fascinating puzzle to scientists: Why did our apelike ancestors come...
July 26th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
BIG BANG BIG BOOM
BLU’s new wall painted animation is an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.
direction and animation by BLU
blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
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sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI
BIG BAG BIG BOOM – the...
July 6th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
Mutation in key gene allows Tibetans to thrive
The gene mutation that enables people to thrive at high altitudes is much more common in Tibetans than Han Chinese and may represent the strongest instance of natural selection ever documented in a human population.
From the Guardian, by Cian O’Luanaigh
A gene that controls red blood cell production...
July 5th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
The most isolated tribe in the world?
In the days after the cataclysmic tsunami of 2004, as the full scale of the destruction and horror wreaked upon the islands of the Indian Ocean became apparent, the fate of the tribal peoples of the Andaman Islands remained a mystery.
It seemed inconceivable, above all, that the Sentinelese islanders...
March 22nd, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
Neanderthals bid for Human Status
NEANDERTHALS as innovators? That the concept seems amusing goes to show how our sister species has become the butt of our jokes. Yet in the Middle Palaeolithic, some 300,000 years ago, innovation is what the Neanderthals were up to.
From NewScientist, by Rowan Hooper
This period is usually regarded...
February 25th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?
READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no
trouble finding it. Recent milestone anniversaries of Darwin’s birth
and of the publication of On the Origin of Species have prompted a
plethora of material, so authors thinking of adding another volume had
better have a good...
February 8th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
Aquatic Apes
Scientists find it easy to explain why we resemble the African apes so closely by pointing out that gorillas, chimpanzees and humans share a common ancestor. It is much harder to explain why we differ from the gorilla and the chimpanzee much more markedly than they differ from one another. Something...
December 2nd, 2009 | Evolution | Read More
The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 20th November 2009
When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peace-keeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight...
December 1st, 2009 | Evolution | Read More
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