Natural Selection

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• Getting it Wrong 2: "Is it evolutionary, or is it...?"

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  When having a conversation with my friends who do not study evolution, I often end up having the following exchange. Someone will be discussing a phenomenon that makes evolutionary sense, for example, mens greater interest than womens in casual sex. I will point out that this phenomenon does, in fact, make ...
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• Evolution v. Intelligent Design Watch: Can Natural Selection Acting on Random Mutations Account for the Origin of Species?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  Catholic biochemist, Michael Behe, thinks not, and Evangelical philosopher, William Lane Craig, in this YouTube clip, clearly and admirably sets out, in broad outline, Behe’s doubts:
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• The Special Relationship Betweem 28 and 13

  
  Tangled Up in Blue Guy — Authority: 122
  How Denialists Do Math Abbott and Costello wrote a routine that illustrates the point of how people can know just enough about arithmetic to make a convincing case to the unwary that 7 x 13 = 28.  They used it on stage and in several of their movies.  Each time I saw it, I could see the inescapable internal logic ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Evolution is in the Veins of Our Captors

  
  Ecographica — Authority: 131
  The human race has been enslaved by evolutionarily superior organisms. In the beginning there was but inorganic matter. From these lifeless substances came the organics which later gave rise to legion-minded protobionts. The protobionts in time beget prokaryotic cells, and with this pivotal step the guiding hand of ...
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• Moron of the Week, #31

  
  Take the Lane — Authority: 127
  Homer Watson and Manitou in Kitchener, on successive days within the last 10 days. On two occasions, a cyclist passed a motorist in the right-hand-only turning lane, on the right side. On one occasion, it was after dark and the cyclist was wearing dark clothing and was lights-free. The motorist who wrote to complain ...
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• Natural Selection

  
  Stix Blog ver 4.0 — Authority: 156
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• The Circumvention of Compulsory Sex

  
  Ecographica — Authority: 131
  Males are sexually coercive. During initial encounters with the opposite sex, they will go to great lengths to impress and entice; they’ll offer gifts, sing, dance, and do whatever else is necessary to win a female’s affections. However, should these preliminary advances be rejected, the males from a multitude of ...
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• Copy that! DNA underwrites the diametric model of mental illness

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  The imprinted brain theory had two distinct origins, both in the late 1990s. First, I developed the idea that Freuds id and ego might be the psychological agents of paternally- and maternally-active imprinted genes respectively, plus X chromosome genes on the mothers side. Imprinted genes are those which are ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• great Mistakes

  
  The Unsinkable brian cork — Authority: 120
  I say it all the time. However, I was reminded, and only this morning (while coaching a CEO whose book you’ve likely read), that I’ve not offered this thought, on or through, this Blog. A rule, and it must needs be a rule to live by is: “The worst mistake you can make is one you repeat” . Mistakes can ...
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• The key to happiness

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Some of us are a lot more optimistic than others. There is no sugar-coating the fact that some people have happy genes and others do not. Geneticists estimate that genes are responsible for about 50 percent of the differences in how happy people say they are. Genes make happiness fairly stable across the lifespan. A ...
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• ‘Natural Selection’ exhibition

  
  HUCK magazine — Authority: 445
  The Atkinson Gallery in Somerset , England is hosting a street art exhibition featuring some of worlds biggest artists until December 12 . Natural Selection is curated by Elms Lesters Painting Rooms and features artwork from local and international artists including Ron English , Adam Neate and James ...
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• Did a ‘faith instinct’ help humankind survive?

  
  Blogging Religiously — Authority: 125
  The notion that we are hard-wired to have faith has gotten a lot of mileage the past few years. It’s the melding of faith and science into one, big…something. NYT science writer Nicholas Wade, who writes often on evolution, has a new book called The Faith Instinct that makes that case that natural ...
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• Natural Selection

  
  Stix Blog ver 4.0 — Authority: 156
  Chip in for my golf addiction Share and Enjoy: Related posts: Natural Selection Natural Selection Natural Selection
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• Toshiba Natural Selection laptop with their specifications

  
  Gadget Folder — Authority: 552
  Toshiba has released its new exclusive line of laptops, Toshiba Natural Selection. It is come with any fancy paintjobs on Toshiba’s latest 505 laptop models from the A, P, M, and Qosmio X series.Their design of notebook is linked with such legendary figures such as Joe Perry (founder and guitarist of Aerosmith) in ...
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