Biology Magazine

Paperblog Editor's Pick

• China as Neolithic Exemplar

  

  The actor David Carradine may have led a troubled life but he experienced no such trouble as Kwai Chang Caine, a Buddhist monk on the move in the old American... Read more

  The 11 September 2011 by   Cris
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• No Bull: The Mithras Cult & Christianity

  

  In his 1880 Hibbert Lecture on the history of early Christianity, Ernest Renan commented: “I sometimes permit myself to say that, if Christianity had not carrie... Read more

  The 05 September 2011 by   Cris
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• Through Their Eyes

  

  Many of us walk through life caught up in our own view of reality, but if you take a moment and stop to look at the world around you, you may wonder what it... Read more

  The 24 August 2011 by   Gerard
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• Methodology & “Evolution of Religion”

  

  Over the past decade several books and articles have appeared which purport to explain the “evolution of religion” as an adaptation, usually invoking group leve... Read more

  The 21 August 2011 by   Cris
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• Chinese Religion: Worship Thy Parents

  

  There are many ways in which China remains a cipher for Westerners, most of whom labor under the misapprehension that “modern civilization” originated in ancien... Read more

  The 19 August 2011 by   Cris
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• Northerners Have Bigger Eyes – and Bigger Brains, Say Researchers

  

  People living in the northern climes adapted bigger eyes - and, as a result, bigger brains, claim Oxford University anthropologists. Read more

  The 27 July 2011 by   Periscope
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• The Mysterian: Teilhard De Chardin

  

  The priest and paleontologist was present at the beginning, more or less. When the hoaxed Piltdown “fossils” were discovered in 1912 and the “Peking Man” (Homo... Read more

  The 22 July 2011 by   Cris
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• Beheading the “Snake God” at Rhino Cave

  

  Indiana Jones would have loved it: 65,000 years ago, stone age hunters in Africa gathered at night in a hidden cave to worship the giant rock snake that seemed... Read more

  The 10 July 2011 by   Cris
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• Q and A: Could the Sensitivity of Modern DNA Testing Prove Confusing in a...

  

  Q: I attended your forensics panel at SINC OC and remember you saying that DNA can be extracted from a single cell found at the scene. Is that correct? I have... Read more

  The 19 June 2011 by   Dplylemd
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• Foreign Ideas & Moral Indigestion

  

  Imagine you are dining at a friend’s home. Your host is excited because she has prepared a special dish for you. When dinner is finally served, you are surprise... Read more

  The 06 June 2011 by   Cris