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Category: Genetics
Richard Wrangham has done a podcast over at World Science (see my review of Catching Fire). You can ask questions in the forum, Wrangham will be participating all week....
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Category: Health
Obesity May Have Offered Edge Over TB: Over the course of human evolution, people with excess stores of fat have been more likely to survive famines, many scientists believe, living on to pass their genes to the next generation. But...
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Category: Evolution
Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain: "Our findings suggest brain size increases the most in areas with larger populations and this almost certainly increased the intensity of social competition," said David Geary, Curator's Professor and Thomas Jefferson Professor...
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Category: Evolution
So claims a researcher whose work will be published in the Journal of Zoology, Dinosaurs shed a few tons in science makeover: "We have found that the statistical model is seriously flawed and the giant dinosaurs probably were only about...
Posted by Razib at 9:51 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Culture
A few weeks ago I commented on Richard Wrangham's discussion with Robert Wright. Though most of the conversation was given over to the arguments in Wrangham's latest book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, I focused on the older...
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Category: Evolution
20 years ago Jeffrey Schwartz published The Red Ape, making the case that humanity's closest extant relatives within the animal kingdom were orangutans, not chimpanzees. This was contemporaneous with the media hullabaloo around African Eve, so either you could say...
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Category: Evolution
Seed interviews Richard Wrangham about his new book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human....
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Category: Genetics
Domestication has a long history. It predates the invention of writing by thousands of years. In the history of biology the study of domestication is closely connected to the emergence of experimental and theoretical biology out of the shadow of...
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Category: Evolution
What Darwin said - and was he right?: In this Darwin year many popular accounts of 'Darwinism' have appeared, but these seldom make a clear distinction among the different components of Darwin's theory of evolution. Many popularisations are simplified to...
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Category: Genetics
Nick Wade in The New York Times reports on new research where they inserted human FOXP2 genes into the mouse genome. Here are some of the findings: Despite the mammalian body's dependence on having its two FOXP2 genes work just...
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