BIG Problems – Page 46

The Brain Drain Within Africa
By the Editor on October 17, 2012
The following is from a guest post to the Chronicle’s WorldWise blog, written by John D. Holm, the former...
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Scientists Identify Likely Origins of Vertebrate Air Breathing
By the Editor on October 17, 2012
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have identified what they think is the ancestral trait that allowed for the evolution...
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Evolution Mostly Driven By Brawn, Not Brains
By the Editor on October 16, 2012
The most common measure of intelligence in animals, brain size relative to body size, may not be as dependent...
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Creativity Closely Entwined With Mental Illness
By the Editor on October 16, 2012
Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than...
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The Latest Effort to Smear Evolution By Natural Selection
By the Editor on October 16, 2012
As a biographical sketch, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius is brisk and sufficient. But as an exploration of Darwin’s...
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A Nobel That Points Us Toward Our Quantum Future
By the Editor on October 16, 2012
Scientists like to think that true measures of our understanding are our ability to predict something, and, in experimental...
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Forrest Corridor Could Save Endangered Species From Decline
By the Editor on October 16, 2012
Sumatran orangutans are in trouble: Only about 6,600 of the animals are left, scattered throughout the northern tip of...
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World Matched Record for Hottest September – Again
By the Editor on October 16, 2012
The globe last month matched a record for the hottest September, set in 2005. It was the third time...
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Conservationists Reveal the World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
A new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) highlights the world’s 25 most endangered primates....
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Fly Genomes Show Natural Selection
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies came along...
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