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The root of all anti-evolutionism permlink
Category: Culture
The Religious Landscape Survey has a lot of data various denominations. Recently I noticed something weird about Mormons; they are very anti-evolution, as well as anti-universalist in their views on salvation, according to this survey. These are notable views because...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:57 PM • 39 Comments •
Why ligers are huge permlink
Category: Evolution
Believe it or not, tigers are not the largest big cat. Ligers are (you might remember ligers from Napoleon Dynamite). Why? It has to do with the weirdness that occurs when you hybridize across two lineages which have been distinctive...
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Altruism & the apes permlink
Category: Ecology
Eric Michael Johnson of Primate Diaries has a piece up for Seed, where he reviews Franz De Waal's newest book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society. Also a post, Misunderstanding Dawkins: The Role of Metaphor in...
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The contingent history of science permlink
Category: Ecology
p-ter points out that selection of model organisms can shape the path of scientific research because of the very nature of model organisms. Normative considerations in science are pretty obvious when you look at the set of disciplines; there's a...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:38 PM • 1 Comments •
Gene wars across the generations permlink
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Nearly 50 years ago W. D. Hamilton published two papers, The genetical evolution of social behaviour - I & The genetical evolution of social behaviour - II, which helped revolutionize our conception of how social and genetic process might work...
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Where is the rainforest above located? For the answer see below.......
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Hornet vs. bee; insect wars permlink
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Many of you might have seen this video of Japanese bees defending their nest against giant hornets: The Japanese bees swarm and bake the giant hornets. But Ed Young reports that there is more to this story....
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Killing you with poison, not sepsis permlink
Category: Evolution
Ed Yong has an excellent review of new research which casts substantial doubt on the trivia chestnut that Komodo dragons kill their prey with their extremely pathogen rich saliva. The more prosaic answer seems to be that they utilize poison,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Genetic closeness != behavioral closeness permlink
Category: Ecology
Sheril's post, Chimpanzees Are NOT Pets!, is good. She notes: 1 Chimpanzees are wild animals. Animals that make good PETS like dogs and cats, have been domesticated for [thousands] of years. There has been selection on them against aggression, which...
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