New research models how the Homo floresiensis species could have evolved its small size remarkably quickly while living on an isolated island.
Source: Fast evolution explains the tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ from Flores Island
Worming Evolution into the Cambrian Explosion
A new fossil worm from the closing days of the Ediacaran is being celebrated as a missing link that demonstrates a gradual Cambrian diversification, not an explosion.
Source: Worming Evolution into the Cambrian Explosion | Evolution News
Horizontal gene transfer: Cholera bacterium steals 150 genes at once
In European First, Proposed Constitutional Amendment in Sweden Would Enshrine Rights of Nature
“When we’re in the beginning of an ecological and climate collapse,” said the lawmaker who introduced the measure, “I hope we can re-think our relationship with Nature.”
Coyne, Bechly, Miller, Berlinski: Scientists Debate David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy
If anyone is worrying, it is Coyne and his fellow Darwinists, alarmed at the defection of a stellar intellect like Gelernter.
Post-empirical science is an oxymoron, and it is dangerous
Theoretical physicists who say the multiverse exists set a dangerous precedent: science based on zero empirical evidence
Source: Post-empirical science is an oxymoron, and it is dangerous | Aeon Essays
Can We Engineer Consciousness in a Robot?
Graziano’s approach is not new. Ancient philosophers thought the mind was fire (not too long after the discovery of fire). Early modern philosophers thought the mind was a machine (just as the machine age got started). Now suddenly it’s a computer…
Source: Can We Engineer Consciousness in a Robot? | Mind Matters
