/tags/evolution/ Recent bookmarks tagged #evolution Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:47 +0000 https://www.sapiens.org/body/human-teeth-evolution/ We rarely consider just how amazing our teeth are. They break food without themselves being broken, up to millions of times over the course of a lifetime; and they do it built from the very same raw materials as the foods they are breaking. Nature is truly an inspired engineer.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #evolution #imported:pinboard #teeth</p> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:36:54 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:31183 evolution imported:pinboard teeth https://www.sapiens.org/body/human-teeth-evolution We rarely consider just how amazing our teeth are. They break food without themselves being broken, up to millions of times over the course of a lifetime; and they do it built from the very same raw materials as the foods they are breaking. Nature is truly an inspired engineer.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #evolution #teeth</p> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:36:54 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:28114 evolution teeth http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/god-darwin-and-my-college-biology-class.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0 EVERY year around this time, with the college year starting, I give my students The Talk. It isn’t, as you might expect, about sex, but about evolution and religion, and how they get along. More to the point, how they don’t.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #biology #evolution #imported:pinboard #religion #science</p> Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:13:39 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:31778 biology evolution imported:pinboard religion science http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/god-darwin-and-my-college-biology-class.html?WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0&action=click&module=MostEmailed&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&src=me&version=Full EVERY year around this time, with the college year starting, I give my students The Talk. It isn’t, as you might expect, about sex, but about evolution and religion, and how they get along. More to the point, how they don’t.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #biology #evolution #religion #science</p> Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:13:39 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:25170 biology evolution religion science http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/20/10459741-how-monkeys-handle-moral-outrage When Occupy Wall Street and similar protests played out over the past year, the phenomenon looked familiar to Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal: He's seen similar moral outrage over economic inequity expressed by monkeys and chimps. And he thinks we could learn a lesson or two from our fellow primates.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #evolution #imported:pinboard #morality #philosophy #primates #religion #science</p> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:41:04 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:20889 evolution imported:pinboard morality philosophy primates religion science http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4817-early-humans-swapped-bite-for-brain.html Humans owe their big brains and sophisticated culture to a single genetic mutation that weakened our jaw muscles about 2.4 million years ago, a new study suggests.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #evolution #genes #genetics #jaws</p> Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:40:22 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:20335 evolution genes genetics jaws http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/12/21/why-do-women-menstruate I suppose we could blame The Curse on The Fall, but then this phylogeny would suggest that Adam and Eve were part of a population of squirrel-like proto-primates living in the early Paleocene. That’s rather unbiblical, though, and what did the bats and elephant shrews do to deserve this?<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #evolution #funny #health #mammals #menstruation</p> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:27:24 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:20301 evolution funny health mammals menstruation http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527441.500-horizontal-and-vertical-the-evolution-of-evolution.html?full=true&print=true "JUST suppose that Darwin's ideas were only a part of the story of evolution. Suppose that a process he never wrote about, and never even imagined, has been controlling the evolution of life throughout most of the Earth's history. It may sound preposterous, but this is exactly what microbiologist Carl Woese and physicist Nigel Goldenfeld, both at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, believe. Darwin's explanation of evolution, they argue, even in its sophisticated modern form, applies only to a recent phase of life on Earth."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #coding #darwin #dna #evolution #genes #genetics</p> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:28:47 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:12882 coding darwin dna evolution genes genetics http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/unorthodox "This has three odd consequences. The first is that, by the end of sex, the two individuals have become genetically identical. It’s as if you and your mate began coitus as yourselves and finished as identical twins. The second odd consequence is that, partway through its life, a ciliate can radically alter its genetic make-up; genetically speaking, the transformation is so extreme that it’s as if you changed into one of your children. Talk about being reborn."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #biology #clilates #dna #evolution #genetics #reproduction #science #sex</p> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:20:43 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:12881 biology clilates dna evolution genetics reproduction science sex http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844 "Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built. The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization. In fact, Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice Age by hunter-gatherers, became that ember—the spark that launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #anthropology #archaeology #culture #evolution #history #prehistory #religion #ruins #science</p> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:23:11 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:12870 anthropology archaeology culture evolution history prehistory religion ruins science http://futurismic.com/2009/05/19/did-cooking-make-us-evolve "Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangman theorizes that cooking with fire triggered hominids to evolve into humans. His experience in the wild led him to conclude that humans could never live on what chimpanzees eat. Cooking, he thinks, might account for the sharp rise in brain size, and the decrease in the size of teeth, that occurred about 1.6 million years ago in Homo erectus over its predecessor, homo habilis. It might explain our relatively small guts and weak jaws, not to mention certain preferences that seem innately human"<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #cooking #evolution #humanity</p> Thu, 21 May 2009 00:47:51 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:12238 cooking evolution humanity http://newsbiscuit.com/2009/04/13/evolution-cannot-explain-existence-of-creationists-concedes-dawkins "By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet’s ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn’t such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I’d wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #creationists #evolution #funny</p> Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:13:45 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:12188 creationists evolution funny http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #ai #algorithms #evolution #genetics #graphics #javascript #science</p> Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:56:11 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:11764 ai algorithms evolution genetics graphics javascript science http://www.slate.com/id/2203120 "This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #biology #creationism #education #election #elitism #evolution #fruitflies #gop #learning #mccain #palin #politics #religion #republicans #science</p> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:05:43 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:11601 biology creationism education election elitism evolution fruitflies gop learning mccain palin politics religion republicans science http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/2910447/Charles-Darwin-to-receive-apology-from-the-Church-of-England-for-rejecting-evolution.html <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #christianity #creationism #darwin #evolution #religion</p> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:12:34 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:11398 christianity creationism darwin evolution religion