Biology

Unintelligent Design

Gary Marcus | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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Gary Marcus

Lost amid all the recent discussions of intelligent design is one simple basic fact: the human species isn't intelligently designed.

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Gay Brain, My Brain, Your Brain...

Liz Spikol | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Comic Strips, Queer, Brain, Brain Biology, Biology, Lesbian, Bisexual, Bisexuality, Kinsey Scale, Heterosexuality, Philadelphia, Gay, Gender, Politics News
Liz Spikol

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says gays and lesbians do, in fact, have biological differences that suggest homo...

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Creationism In US High Schools: 16 Percent Of US Science Teachers Are Creationists

Huffington Post | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living

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ABC News reports on the findings of a study that concluded 16% of U.S. science teachers are Creationists, and that, disturbingly, one in eight are tea...

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Methuselah Laughing: Liars, Suckers, and Human Mortality

Dan Agin | Posted 11.27.2007 | Living

Read More: Jeanne Calment, Life-Span, Aging Research, How to Live Longer, Van Gogh, Biology, Immortality, Alex Comfort, Living News
Dan Agin

Research on aging and longevity is underfunded, not overfunded. The cost to the U.S. taxpayers of one month of the Iraq war would fund a serious war against mortality for ten years.

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Goodbye Selfish-Gene: A New Upheaval in the Science of Human Behavior

Dan Agin | Posted 11.03.2007 | Living

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Dan Agin

The Darwinian prop of the lone cowboy rugged conservative bundle of selfish genes has now been pulled out from under the cowboy and the lone cowboy has suddenly collapsed into a mumbling baffled cartoon.

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Give Them the Social Darwin Award

Frans de Waal | Posted 10.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Darwinism, Conservatism, Social Darwinism, Darwin Awards, Biology, Healthcare, Politics News
Frans de Waal

As a biologist, my problem is that Social Darwinism is giving real Darwinism a bad name.

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