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Louis Agassiz and the National Academy’s Secret

Abraham Lincoln signed the Academy into law with Agassiz by his side. Read More ›
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How to Restore Science’s Lost Luster

More and more, the scientific establishment looks like a special interest group with biases of their own. Read More ›
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Himmelfarb and Her Haters

What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›
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Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversification by Non-Darwinian Mechanisms

In butterfly “evolution,” new findings show mechanisms at work other than random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›
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New Bird Migration Secrets Revealed

Advances in live data logging show how birds do it: get from here to there. Some surprises were uncovered in recent experiments. Read More ›
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Remembering Will Provine, Friend and Adversary

Provine was one of those rare people with a strong viewpoint who is still willing to imagine that there is an opposing view that is worth hearing. Read More ›
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Photo: Memory (sculpture, marble), by Daniel Chester French, 1886–1887, Metropolitan Museum of Art,  via Wikimedia Commons.

Memory — New Research Reveals Cells Have It, Too

A memory of past events helps a cell learn how to respond to recurring threats and protect the genome. Read More ›
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The Second Law Argument: A Timeline

“Remove the sun,” wrote Isaac Asimov, “and the human brain would not have developed.” Read More ›

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