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Posted on: February 2, 2008 6:00 PM, by Greg Laden

Condoms: The Shape of Evil from Primordial Blog

Up until recently the Catholic Church has maintained a firm stand against condom use. Due to rigid dogma, stiff opposition to change and an erection of barriers against the modernization of the church's ancient codes, the Catholic institution has been relentless in keeping it up for centuries.


Punctuated Equilibrium drives Language Evolution at Anthropology.net

Fellow blogger, Simon Greenhill of HENRY, and co-authors published a cool paper evaluating language evolution that just came out in today's issue of Science. The premise behind the paper, "Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts," is simple to follow. By comparing related versions, or homologs, of common words between the following language families: Indo-European, Bantu, and Austronesian, changes in languages can be tracked through the fate of certain words, just as mutations in key genes can tell a species' history.

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