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Thomas Hardy, author of Tess of the d’Urbervilles and other great novels, was also a poet. Born and raised a member of the Church of England, his faith was shattered on reading Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, published in 1859.
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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.
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With a two-page letter to the editor of the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment published in 1972, the English scientist and inventor James Lovelock (1919-2022) introduced Gaia into the professional literature.
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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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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused a global energy crisis. The United States and the European Union have instituted partial embargos on Russian oil and gas, while Russia has responded by cutting off gas to Poland and Bulgaria.
Read MoreKeith Frayn, author of Understanding Human Metabolism address some of the major misconceptions about human metabolism.
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In my book I trace the history of narrative phylogenetics—the science of evolutionary storytelling—from its pre-evolutionary roots to the present day. I outline the conceptual shifts involved in transforming a static view of nature into a dynamic view, where the branching evolutionary relationships between taxa are understood to be the products of the linear descent and divergence of evolving lineages. I discuss the enduring challenges of what I call lineage thinking, which involves weaving linear evolutionary narratives with branching evidence.
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Keith Frayn, author of Understanding Human Metabolism address some of the major misconceptions about human metabolism.
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