Month: August 2022

Scientists have found the first examples of similar plant forms evolving repeatedly within different regions, suggesting that evolution can be predicted.

Source: Plant study hints evolution may be predictable | YaleNews

Scientists are examining evolutionary breadcrumbs to reconstruct the vision of whales that lived as long as 55 million years ago.

Source: What Did Ancient Whales See? – The Atlantic

The human brain is neither a huge homogeneous set of neurons nor a massive set of task-specific programs that each solves a single problem.

Source: Combining Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI Yields a Foundational Model of Human Thought

The VMAT1 gene evolved through natural selection in human evolution. Those with the Ile-type variant of the VMAT1 gene are less prone to anxiety and depression.

Source: Brain Mechanism Underlying Evolution of Anxiety – Neuroscience News

Source: At Sci Tech Daily: Nanoscale Rotors Constructed From DNA – Smallest Flow-Driven Motors in the World – Uncommon Descent

I was in medical limbo for four days which broke my obsessive drafting of the book, fortunate. There will be more drafts but the basic versioning is done, I suspect.  There are now two versions, at…

Source: The Last Revolution: Postcapitalist Futures…//8_1_22 – 1848+: The End(s) of History