Avian Einsteins

Avian Einsteins
How do we learn to speak? What is the connection between language and movement? Join a broad and distinguished panel on an exploration of how striking parallels between bird and human brains are providing sharp new insights into how we acquire language and the links between hearing and movement. This...
November 25th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

Neanderthal Brains

Neanderthal Brains
Did we out-breed slow-maturing Neanderthals? by Debora MacKenzie Neanderthal women had just as much trouble in childbirth as modern women – and their kids took just as long to grow up. Christoph Zollikofer and colleagues at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, have done the first three-dimensional...
October 6th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

How Evolution Is Evolving

How Evolution Is Evolving
Patrick Tucker’s article, originally published in the Futurist, reviews a radical new take on man’s evolution. Contrary to popular belief, human evolution in fact has the potential to accelerate rather than slow down in the future. Survival of the fittest is a rule that still applies in our modern...
September 28th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

Cultural Evolution Article 1

Psychedelics could be a powerful tool…They provide treatment options for patients with terminal illnesses, and there are positive indications that they could be beneficial for conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder and eating disorders, which are notoriously difficult to treat effectively....
August 7th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More
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