Science & Culture
DNA Scrambles Darwin’s Tree
Darwin’s tree of life might be visible in DNA, if DNA didn’t conspire to scramble the signal.
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What Chaperone Proteins Know
Cherry-Picking a Definition of “Species”
Circadian Rhythms: “Nature’s Intricate Clockwork”
E. O. Wilson Stumbles on His Conscience
How James Clerk Maxwell Rescued the Humanities in Verse
Few may realize that James Clerk Maxwell, the 19th-century physicist on par with Newton and Einstein who gave us electromagnetic theory, was a poet. One of his best takes materialists to task in playful yet incisive wit.
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