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Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943)
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›
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#2 of Our Top Stories of 2019: BIO-Complexity Paper Shows We Could Have Come from Two

New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports. Read More ›
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New BIO-Complexity Paper: We Could Have Come from Two

New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports. Read More ›
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This Week, Science Uprising Is Coming to Facebook; Here’s How You Can Help

Each day this week we’ll be posting one of the episodes on the CSC Facebook page. Here’s what you can do right now to help. Read More ›
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Is There a Limit to the Number of a Designer’s Creative Acts?

Display content from YouTube Click here to display content from YouTube. Learn more in YouTube’s privacy policy. Always display content from YouTube Open video directly Recently, I was listening to Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1068, followed a couple of days later by watching the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion. What does one have to do with the other? Well, the latter includes in the soundtrack the song “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by the 1960s English rock group Procol Harum, and it occurred to me that “A Whiter Shade” may be based on Bach. A little research revealed that the organ countermelody of “A Whiter Shade” is, indeed, based on BWV 1068. The song itself is Read More ›

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