Tag Archives: biology
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Olive oil was first produced somewhere around 4000 BC. Now we have a range of vegetable and animal fats available – sunflower, safflower, rapeseed, beef suet, butter and others. Chemically...
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Fat. What a terrible word. It’s what we don’t want. Actually we need a fast way to get rid of it.
Or so the word fat is generally perceived. But that’s wrong. We...
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The relationship of mathematics to biology is fascinating. Understanding why anti-evolutionist arguments fail can help us think clearly about this relationship....
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‘Oh, I’ve cut out carbs. I feel so much healthier’, many people tell
me. But I doubt they know what ‘carbs’
really are, nor why we really need them in our diet. The word carbohydrate...
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It seems that for many people, the word ‘metabolism’ conjures up an idea of how fast we can burn off the calories we eat. Certainly, if I let slip that my job is to study human metabolism, the...
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The following is adapted from Understanding Race by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall, Cambridge University Press (2022).
When addressing the “reality” of race, we need to realize that the word was...
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The first three editions of Measuring Behaviour were co-authored by Patrick Bateson, known as Pat to his family and friends, and his former graduate student Paul Martin. I had a very special relationship...
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Is philosophy of science of any use to biologists? A well-known response is that philosophy of science is as helpful to science, as ornithology is to birds. Whether or not it was Richard Feynman who actually...
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Olive oil was first produced somewhere around 4000 BC. Now we have a range...
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Fat. What a terrible word. It’s what we don’t want. Actually...
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The relationship of mathematics to biology is fascinating. Understanding why anti-evolutionist argum...
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‘Oh, I’ve cut out carbs. I feel so much healthier’, many people tell
me. ...
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It seems that for many people, the word ‘metabolism’ conjures up an idea of...
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The following is adapted from Understanding Race by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall,...
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The first three editions of Measuring Behaviour were co-authored by Patrick Bateson,...
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Is philosophy of science of any use to biologists? A well-known response is that...
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