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July 2017

insensitive sandwich

Evolution and the Insensitive Sandwich

David Brooks of the New York Times has taken a lot razzing for a column about social class signifiers and how they serve to insulate the upper middle class. Read More ›
rangeomorphs

In Ediacaran Seas, Huge Rangeomorphs Appeared with a “Bang”

Anything that Simon Conway Morris puts his name on is of immediate interest, but this would seem to evade the most fascinating question of all in life’s history. Read More ›
molecular springs

Molecular Machines Use Physics to Do Mechanical Work

Recent findings show cellular machinery using pushes, pulls, and even electrical forces to accomplish physical work. Read More ›
pony returns

Return of the Christmas Pony – Robert Marks on Modeling Darwinian Evolution

Maybe evolution is just too complicated to model? Or maybe computer simulations have already provided a sufficient demonstration that evolution works as advertised? Read More ›

Math, Computers, and Evolution: Robert Marks on Searches and Artificial Intelligence

Marks’s new book, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, makes an important but esoteric-sounding field accessible to the general reader. Read More ›

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