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October 30, 2005
Category: Evolution
A new autumn has brought another burst of red and yellow leaves. And it has also brought an interesting new idea about why trees put on this show every year. In recent years, scientists have been roughly divided into two...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:50 PM • 9 Comments •
October 28, 2005
Category: Blink ›
Peter Brown, anthropologist on the hobbit team, jumps into the comment fray himself on the nature of the fossils he discovered....
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Category: Blink ›
I'll be talking to science writers about blogging on Tuesday in New York. If you'd like to participate in the discussion, leave your comments here. Thanks....
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October 27, 2005
Category: Blink ›
A Bronx cheer for the four-legged hobbit from one of its discoverers. See my updated post....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 5:09 PM • •
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
Well, here's an idea I haven't heard of before... Last year scientists found the bones of what they recognized as a new species of hominid that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago. They named it Homo floresiensis, and its...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:37 AM • 11 Comments •
October 26, 2005
Category: Evolution
There have been some interesting new developments in the study of the evolution of language. The idea that human language emerged from hand gestures rather than sounds has been getting very popular in recent years. Some scientists think that certain...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:51 AM • 9 Comments •
October 25, 2005
Category: Brains
Back in the 1600s, when neurology was born, it wasn't scientists who were looking at brains. The word scientist didn't exist. Instead, those visionary folks would have called themselves natural philosophers. As I researched this chapter of scientific history for...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:16 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Blink ›
The science writer/blogging panel I was on over the weekend is now available on Contentious....
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October 24, 2005
Category: Evolution
Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk in Westport, Connecticut, based in part on my new book on human origins. I'll be talking about Hobbits, natural selection in our own time, and more (accompanied by visuals). The talk is part of...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:25 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Evolution
You may have heard about a petition that was being signed by scientists earlier this month against the teaching of intelligent design. The inspiration came from another petition drafted by the Discovery Institute opposing evolution. It garnered 400 signatures of...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:44 AM • 11 Comments •
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