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Photo: Humpback whale, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again

The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life. Read More ›
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Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans

Recently, a team of British paleontologists added a new pseudo-explanation. Read More ›
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Photo: European bee-eaters, note the bee which is about to meet its fate, by Pierre Dalous [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Migrating Birds Can Find Their Flocks After Many Miles and Days Apart

Another study of bird migration using geolocators finds fascinating new facts about social interactions during long-distance flights. Read More ›
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Photo: Mylodon darwinii, lower jaw, Natural History Museum, Berlin, by FunkMonk [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Doctor’s Diary: Inexplicable Species and the Theory of Evolution

Man has been searching for fossils, or stumbling upon them, for millennia. Read More ›
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Beating the Summer Heat — Thanks to Human Exceptionalism

It’s hot out. Be glad that you’re a human being, and not some other kind of mammal. Read More ›
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From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions of his book, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›
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Oral Cavity’s Supposedly “Lousy” Design Is a Key to Human Speech

We’re constantly told that the design of the human larynx, trachea, and oral cavity is poor because it allows for choking on food. Read More ›
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This Is Science — Dog Study Confirms What Everyone Already Knew

In contrast with apes, it’s a tougher sell to say that dogs share an ability to communicate with us because of being close evolutionary cousins. Read More ›
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Nathan Lents Doesn’t Understand…Refrigeration

Lents studies rotting corpses and household plants. He might not know much about (living) human physiology. Read More ›

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