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Understatement: According to Current Zoo Director, Caging Man “Shouldn’t Have Happened”

Hammering home the lesson about “our own evolutionary history” was exactly the purpose behind displaying and humiliating an African man with monkeys. Read More ›
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Previously Unknown “Scutoid” Shape, Critical to Biology, Calls Architecture and Design to Mind

These sources should be more careful with their word choice. Someone could get the wrong idea. Read More ›
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Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma

Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.” Read More ›
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How the Nucleus Guards Its Gates

Details of the nuclear pore complex, one of the largest and most complex protein systems in the cell, come into sharper focus as a team watches how it validates a messenger RNA. Read More ›
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Subcellular Map of the Human Proteome Reveals “Highly Complex Architecture”

The degree of regulation and control required for this system is not only enormous, but contrary to evolutionary expectations. Read More ›

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