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• Creationists Are Infuriating - but Not as Much as We Are

  

  I haven't blogged much lately because of other things in life. Shame. Things like work and applying for a Green Card. This has taken me out of the loop of... Read more

  The 05 November 2013 by   Bjornostman
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• Creationist Implosion

  

  Since the middle of last week I have been having an email conversation with a creationist. He emailed me after we had a conversation several years ago, now... Read more

  The 08 November 2013 by   Bjornostman
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• Wild Chimps Seen Hunting with Spears

  

  Chimpanzees mostly eat fruit but occasionally supplement their diet with meat. A common prey is other primates and chimps have developed some fairly complex... Read more

  The 09 November 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Smooth and Rugged Fitness Landscapes

  

  Here are a couple of maps of different landscapes just I just made today. The top landscapes are "smooth" and the bottom ones is "rugged". Read more

  The 13 November 2013 by   Bjornostman
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• Sugar! The Devil That Prayer is Not Saving You from

  

  Early warning Sugar addiction has been correlated with the increase in per capita consumption of sugar and other high-glycemic-index compounds such as corn syru... Read more

  The 01 November 2013 by   Philipmarais
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• Teeth Raise Questions Over the Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals

  

  The Neanderthals were our cousins that went extinct ~30,000 years ago. We were so similar that we interbred, and so some people argue that we’re actually... Read more

  The 07 November 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Testing the Social Brain Hypothesis

  

  The link between group size and brain size (or rather, neocortex size) in modern primates on which the SBH is based. I’m not sure why there are random monkey... Read more

  The 05 November 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Myths in Biology: Mendel's Pea Flowers

  

  At P.Z. Myers' blog, Pharyngula, he has a post on the subject of "myths" in biology, using the number of cell types in humans as an example. He cites Stephen J. Read more

  The 04 November 2013 by   Allen_macneill
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• Did Neanderthals and Humans Interbreed?

  

  Some time between 300 – 600,000 years ago humans diverged from the Neanderthals. However, this wasn’t the end of our genetic interaction. Read more

  The 20 November 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Baboon Crop Raiding Workshop

  

  This week, some of the Primate & Predator Project team at Lajuma took a short adventure to the Mogalakwena Research Centre for a Baboon Crop Raiding Workshop... Read more

  The 29 November 2013 by   Iratemonkey
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