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Did Rock Climbing Help Us Start Walking Upright?
The story of how humans evolved from knuckle-walking primates to upright bipeds is still a matter of great debate...
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Chlorine, Swimming Pool Helper, Has a Checkered Past
Over the next few months, chlorine will ensure that countless swimming pools don’t turn into microbe-choked petri dishes. That’s...
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We Fit Nature to Us: Evolution’s 2-Way Street
It is in our nature to fit nature to us. We are best at it, but other species do...
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Giant band of galactic gas likely has dual origin
An enormous ribbon of gas that threads through the thinner gas of the Milky Way’s halo is the result...
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When Will AI Be Created?
Human-level AI (HLAI) appears to be the topic of the week. Kevin Drum at Mother Jones thinks AIs will...
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How Humans Will Evolve Over the Next Million Years
The average mammalian species lifespan is a million years. But Homo sapiens only evolved about 100 thousand years ago....
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To Find Meaning in a Secular Age, Stop Searching
In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, two friends, Vladimir and Estragon, endlessly wait by a tree in the moonlight...
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Dog and Human Genomes Evolved Together
Researchers from the University of Chicago and several international institutions found that several groups of genes in humans and...
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Cutting Carbon Dioxide Isn’t Enough
According to data being gathered at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which has been monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide...
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Science and Religion Can’t Be Reconciled
A few recent events, including the launch of Nautilus and this interesting thread on Brian Leiter’s blog, have brought...