Back to the Future with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Aeon, August Weismann, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, epigenetics, eugenicists, Evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, history of science, internal changes, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jessica Riskin, living things, Napoleon, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, Reign of Terror, Scientific American, seals, The Power of Life, Weismann barrier
Lamarck believed that “all living beings are constantly transforming themselves” and thus life forms shape their own evolution. Source
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An Elevator Pitch About What Information Is

communication, elevator pitch, epistemologists, Fred Dretske, information, Inquiry (book), Intelligent Design, John Archibald Wheeler, John Horgan, Logic and the Flow of Information, MIT, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalists, physical causality, possibilities, Robert Stalnaker, Scientific American, scientific reasoning, semantic content, Shannon information, Stanford University, teleology
The conception of information as ruling out possibilities allows for teleological as well as non-teleological processes to generate information. Source
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Get Smart: Neanderthals Progress from Brute to Beaut

archeology, brain development, burial sites, cave walls, childhood development, cognitive functioning, Culture, DNA, Evolution, fossils, Friedrich Alexander University, genes, genetics, genome, human mind, Human Origins, Human Origins and Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington, intelligence, Kyoto University, language, modern humans, Neanderthals, Nurnberg, paleontology, researchers, Scientific American, Tom Schoenemann
We must be ready to ask some questions about many of the evolution stories we have taken for granted. Source
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Is Government’s Relationship with Science “Crumbling”?

Andrea Gawrylewski, Armageddon, arXiv, autoethnography, Carole LaBonne, Colin Wright, COVID-19, Democrats, Gallup, government, Grant Witness, grants, H. Winet, hallucinations, Harvard University, Keir Starmer, Medicine, NIH, Northwestern University, political science, references, Republicans, Research, researchers, Science Alert, Scientific American, Scott Delaney, Today in Science, Vannevar Bush, Vitomir Kovanovic
The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems. Source
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Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

1 percent myth, American Museum of Natural History, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, chimps, common decent, de novo, Emily Reeves, Evolution, human exceptionalism, human genome, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, ID The Future, National Geographic, new york, order of magnitude, Podcast, Science (journal), Science Reporting, Scientific American
The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Source
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Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

boxing, Canada, censorship, chromosomes, Culture & Ethics, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, Facebook, free speech, genetics, Georges Cazorla, Imane Khalif, International Olympic Committee, Jerry Coyne, misinformation, Moon, Olympiad, Olympics, religion, Richard Dawkins, science, Scientific American, sex binary, Sports, testosterone, The Last Supper, wokeness, women
Dawkins and others believe that Facebook’s ban hammer fell on his questions about Imane Khalif competing in the women’s division boxing at the 2024 Olympics. Source
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Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

Andre Sousa, bioethics, brain damage, brains, circulation, death, emergency room, Lucid Dying, Medicine, Nature (journal), Nenad Sestan, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, nutrients, oxygen, oxygenation, pigs, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Yale University
Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Source
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Bees with Feelings? A Darwinist Winces

animal consciousness, animals, Chemistry, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Evolution, Feelings, flight distance, human consciousness, insects, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, natural selection, naturalism, Neuroscience & Mind, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, protozoans, qualia, Queen Mary University, Scientific American, sentience, The Mind of a Bee, Tufts University
Most naturalist philosophers of mind have held that human consciousness — maddeningly mysterious — is an illusion. Source
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