Today, I want to look at an interesting theory on human evolution that I’ve come across a couple times, known as The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. This hypothesis isn’t really going to contribute much of anything to anything, whether it proves to be true or not. But nonetheless, I find competing theories of evolution [...]
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One of the new words I picked up while reading Survival of the Sickest was transposon. Wikipedia describes transposons as:
sequences of DNA that can move around to different positions within the genome of a single cell, a process called transposition. In the process, they can cause mutations and change the amount of DNA in [...]
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A friend sent me this article from Psychology Today about dreams and their function. This is obviously just one of many theories about dreams, but I found the evolutionary context of this theory interesting. So much seems to make sense when put into the context of evolutionary pressures.
Dreams may do the same thing. [...]
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I just finished The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins. Given the subtitle and having seen some of Dawkins speeches directly targeting religion, I expected a rather incendiary rant. Luckily, I was pleasantly surprised; apparently he’s become more vitriolic towards religion in the past [...]
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Now that I’ve re-devoted my free time to reading, I’m burning through books at a pretty good clip. This past week, I read Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease. It was an interesting book, discussing the advantages that various diseases conferred on people throughout the ages and [...]
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