Tag: Ajit Varki

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Date
February 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Ajit Varki, authors, COVID-19, editors, Food and Drug Administration, Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, National Institutes of Health, Science (journal), Sunetra Gupta}

Who’s Afraid of This New Science Journal?

_{Science and Culture
February 14, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Skeptics worry that the new journal "will be used to sow doubt about scientific consensus." Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 24, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Ajit Varki, Albert Einstein, animals, Anolis lizard, bread, cheese, chimpanzees, creativity, Darwinian evolution, David Premack, fire, human origins, humans, intelligence, Internet, iPhone, John West, Neanderthals, Noam Chomsky, Peaceful Science, S. Joshua Swamidass, Thomas Nagel, tools, University of Pennsylvania}

A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!

_{Ann Gauger
January 24, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

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Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 12, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Africa, Ajit Varki, Ann Gauger, breaking things, cheetahs, Darwinism, Death Valley, DNA, Elizabeth Pennisi, evolution, gene, humans, ID the Future, mice, Michael Behe, primates, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Science Magazine, The Edge of Evolution, UC San Diego}

Origin of Long-Distance Running — More Evolution by Breaking Things

_{David Klinghoffer
September 12, 2018

Evolution

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A central problem for theories of unguided evolution has always been the challenge of building complex biological novelties. Read More ›