Archives for February 19, 2008
Fidel Castro Will Step Down Sunday
Posted by Greg Laden on February 19, 2008 Fidel Castro Will Step Down SundayCuba’s ailing leader Fidel Castro has announced he will not accept another term as president, ending the communist revolutionary’s 49 years in power. [Details: BBC]
Evolution, Cuisine and Romance
Posted by Greg Laden on February 19, 2008 Greg Is Doing a Cafe Scientifique… “Evolution, Cuisine and Romance” This Tuesday at the Bryant-Lake Bowl
Minnesota Blogs
Posted by Greg Laden on February 19, 2008 If you want to keep up on local events and conversations related to biology, evolution/creationism, secular vs. religious politics, and many other issues, and you live in Minnesota, well, you can read my blog faithfully every day. But if you want more (and you should), here is a list of Minnesota based blogs that are…
The Potato and Human Evolution
Posted by Greg Laden on February 19, 2008 Fallback foods are the foods that an organism eats when it can’t find the good stuff. It has been suggested that adaptive changes in fallback food strategies can leave a more distinct mark on the morphology of an organism, including in the fossil record, than changes in preferred food strategies. This assertion is based on…
What did the immediate ancestor of chimps and humans look like?
Posted by Greg Laden on February 19, 2008 Comparing living chimpanzees to living humans, in reference to the species that gave rise to these two closely related species, is one way to frame questions about the evolution of each species.
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