Biology Magazine

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• Dreams, Trance & Visions

  

  There can be little doubt that fluctuations in consciousness are a major contributing factor to beliefs in the supernatural. Although there are other aspects... Read more

  The 29 November 2011 by   Cris
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• Iroquois Religion & Group Level Selection

  

  While browsing at my local bookstore yesterday and looking for a diversionary read, I serendipitously discovered The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of... Read more

  The 27 November 2011 by   Cris
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• Heterochromia In Cats

  

  image credit In a condition called complete heterochromia, the whole iris of one eye is a different color from the iris of the other eye. Partial heterochromia... Read more

  The 07 November 2011 by   Gerard
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• Your Homunculus Is A Liar

  

  The person who lives inside your head may seem rational and honest, but who is fooling who? If you are fortunate there is only one voice and if you are sober th... Read more

  The 27 October 2011 by   Cris
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• 6 Bizarre Alien-Looking Life Forms

  

  image credit Life, in all its varied forms, can be described in many ways. 'Astounding', 'beautiful' and 'majestic' are just a few of the words that spring to... Read more

  The 27 October 2011 by   Gerard
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• “God” Debate Straitjacketed by Myopia

  

  Over at Salon the MIT physicist and novelist Alan Lightman recently asked whether God exists, a question he poses in the service of reconciling science with... Read more

  The 24 October 2011 by   Cris
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• Unravelling The DNA Of World's Oldest Woman

  The Dutch woman who was the oldest person in the world when she died at the age of 115, appears have rare mutations in her DNA. Henny van Andel-Schipper was bor... Read more

  The 16 October 2011 by   Gerard
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• From Paleolithic Diviners to Axial Prophets

  

  A person of many astute observations, one of Robert Bellah’s most astute is his refrain (when talking about the history of religions) that “nothing is ever... Read more

  The 09 October 2011 by   Cris
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• Guest Blogger: Elena Giorgi: Deep DNA Sequencing

  

  My guest today is E.E. Giorgi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. She will discuss some newer and more-sophisticated... Read more

  The 22 September 2011 by   Dplylemd
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• Forgotten Founder: James George Frazer

  

  The standard origins story of cultural anthropology includes two founders: Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) and Henry Lewis Morgan (1818-1881). Unlike most... Read more

  The 19 September 2011 by   Cris
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