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• Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Bacteria, viruses and fungi have been primarily cast as the villains in the battle for better human health. But a growing community of researchers is sounding the warning that many of these microscopic guests are really ancient allies. [More]
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• Female Fruit Flies Can Be ‘Too Attractive’ to Males, Scientists Show

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  These are fruit flies courting. Females can be too attractive to the opposite sex — too attractive for their own good — say biologists at UC Santa Barbara. They found that, among fruit flies, too much male attention directed toward attractive females leads to smaller families and, ultimately, to a reduced rate of ...
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• More coffee!! Your doctor needs to know what would have worked for someone’s hypothetical reconstruction of Stone Age man before she can treat you effectively …

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 606
  Apparently, evolutionary biologists/psychologists (if there is any difference, I would be glad to know*) are trying to get jobs adding to the cost burden of medical schools, fronting their speculations to doctors in training, a friend advises. See this story by Daniel Cressey (”Groups say med school training must ...
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• Merging the IP ADR Blog with New Commercial ADR Blog

  
  Settle It Now Negotiation Blog — Authority: 460
  I’m migrating the IP ADR Blog to a new Blog Home called Commercial ADR – Business Solutions to Justice Problems .  I’ll continue to post articles to the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on matters of general interest to negotiators, including litigators who negotiate the settlement of lawsuits. After ...
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• Newly Discovered T. Rex Relative Fleshes Out Early Dino Evolution

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  The earliest stages of dinosaur evolution remain buried under eons of rock, but the discovery of a new primitive carnivore fossil in the U.S. Southwest promises to dispel some of the debate about how these beasts spread across the globe--and about the origins of the group that eventually led to modern birds . ...
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• Asia populated in one migratory swoop

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
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• Extreme Monotremes: Why Do Egg-Laying Mammals Still Exist?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Only two kinds of egg-laying mammals are left on the planet today--the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, or spiny anteater. These odd “monotremes” once dominated Australia, until their pouch-bearing cousins, the marsupials, invaded the land down under 71 million to 54 million years ago and swept them away. New ...
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• Tiny tyrannosaurs rewrite evolutionary rules

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Looming larger than a double-decker bus and baring teeth that have been likened to serrated bananas, Tyrannosaurus rex has long been considered one of the most fearsome creatures ever to have walked the earth. Other familiar tyrannosaurs, such as Albertosaurus and Tarbosaurus , were likewise terrifying in their ...
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• New species evolve in bursts

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
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• HOMO-SELECTION: THE POWER OF SAME-SEX LIAISONS

  
  Gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV Gay TV, gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV — Authority: 136
  There’s a great article in this month’s New Scientist which discusses homo-behaviour in animals and why it exists. Basically – same-sex sexual behaviour exists in zillions of species from monkey’s to albatrosses and locusts to toads, but what’s the point of as it doesn’t lead to the reproduction of the ...
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• Go Get ‘em Tiger

  
  Alpha Dominance — Authority: 91
  I’m sure nobody has missed the brouhaha surrounding Tiger Woods’ alleged infidelity.  Not being a celebrity fanboy sycophant, I generally despise the celebrity worship Americans insist on engaging in and all the rabid gasping and moralizing when one of them is suddenly revealed as a mere mortal like the rest of ...
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• Defining Evolution in Anthropology Textbooks

  
  Sandwalk — Authority: 465
  Heres one of the most interesting articles in the current edition of Evolution: Education and Outreach . White, J., Tollini, C.D., Collie, W.A., Strueber, M.B., Strueber, L.H., and Ward, J.W. (2009) Evolution and University-level Anthropology Textbooks: The “Missing Link”? Evo. Edu. Outreach 2:722–737 [ ...
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• Evolution According to Niles Eldredge

  
  Sandwalk — Authority: 465
    Ive read all of the books by Niles Eldredge. Hes one of my favorite science authors [ Good Science Writers: Niles Eldredge ]. However, Ive never really understood exactly what he means when he talks about evolution. Hes not a molecular biologist or a geneticist but does he understand the basics of these ...
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• 50 Years Ago: A Look at the Far Side of the Moon

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  DECEMBER 1959 THE FAR SIDE --“Man’s first blurred view of the other side of the moon suggests that current theories of the origin and history of our natural satellite may require revision. The Soviet vehicle, launched on October 3, crossed the moon’s orbit some three days later. Shortly thereafter, in response ...
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• Backyard Feeders Driving Bird Evolution

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  We usually think of evolution as something that happens over eons, in remote places where people rarely venture. Not something that happens around the backyard birdfeeder in just a few decades. But a study in the journal Current Biology suggests that feeding birds in winter can influence their course of evolution. ...
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• Scent signals make lemurs prevent incest

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Lemurs can avoid incest and nepotism, thanks to some specific scent signals secreted from the genital glands of others in the family, according to a new study.Researchers have identified chemicals signals used by both male and female ring-tailed lemurs to advertise their family ties.Christine ...
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• Comparison and Adaptation

  
  Sandwalk — Authority: 465
    As most of you know, Richard Dawkins is not a fan of the Spandrels paper by Gould and Lewontin [ A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme ]. A reader has alerted me to a comment that Richard Dawkins posted on Jerry Coynes blog. Dawkins said [ I was there ... ]. I was there (one of the speakers) at the London ...
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• How Did Flowering Plants Evolve to Dominate Earth?

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  Colorful tulips and other spring flowers in the Keukenhof Gardens, the Netherlands. How did flowering plants come to dominate plant life on earth?To Charles Darwin it was an ‘abominable mystery’ and it is a question which has continued to vex evolutionists to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did ...
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• A gesture worth 1,000 words of language evolution

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 144
  Chimpanzee gestural control is left-brain-centric, shedding new light on the evolution of human language , since it is also largely localized in the left hemisphere. “The de­gree of predom­i­nance of the right hand for ges­tures is one of the most pro­nounced we have ev­er found in chim­panzees in ...
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• A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme

  
  Sandwalk — Authority: 465
  The Royal Society of Britain has opened access to a number of classic papers that have been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society . One of them is ... Gould, S. J. and Lewontin, R.C. (1979) The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme. Proc. R. Soc. ...
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