- Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle
- Monogamy unnatural for our sexy species
- Climate Change and the Integrity of Science
- 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive
- Peter Ward on Earth's mass extinctions
- The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair
- Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy?
- How slums can save the planet
- Smoke bomb: The other climate culprits
- Peru poison frog reveals secret of monogamy
Quo vadis?
bookmarks tagged quovadis by pdmc076
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Did our cosmos exist before the big bang?
10 December 2008 - New Scientist
India's 'pink' vigilante women
They wear pink saris and go after corrupt officials and boorish men with sticks and axes. BBC NEWS.
Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
Video on TED.com
Religion: Bound to Believe?
Is religion a product of our evolution? In the past ten years, the evolutionary and cognitive study of religion has begun to mature. It puts forward new hypotheses and testable predictions. It asks what in the human make-up renders religion possible and successful. Findings from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, cultural anthropology and archaeology promise to change our view of religion. Links to PDF of the full Nature article.
How warfare shaped human evolution
For the first time, anthropologists, archaeologists, primatologists, psychologists and political scientists are approaching a consensus. Not only is war as ancient as humankind, they say, but it has played an integral role in our evolution.
Humans may have prevented super ice age
New Scientist article on the theory that Hhad we not radically altered the atmosphere, the current cycle of ice ages and interglacials would have given way in the not-too-distant future to an ice age lasting millions of years.
The ice age that never was
New Scientist article on the controversial theory that humans have been causing global warming ever since our ancestors started burning and cutting forests to make way for fields at least 7000 years ago.
Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple?
Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization. Smithsonian magazine.
Sleep Creeps Up: No Top-Down Control for Sleep and Wakefulness
Washington State University press release.
Life After the Bubble - How Japan Lost a Decade
The World - NYTimes.com.
Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything
Video on TED.com
'Fishapod' reveals origins of head and neck structures of first land animals
University of Chicago Medical Center.
Jurassic Park comes true
How scientists are bringing dinosaurs back to life with the help of the humble chicken.
George Soros on Bill Moyers Journal
October 10, 2008.
Nightclubs are hell
Charlie Brooker. Comment is free. The Guardian
Female fighters: We won't stand for male dominance
QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq (CNN)
Egalitarian Revolution In The Pleistocene?
Although anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are still debating this question, a new study supports the view that the first egalitarian societies may have appeared tens of thousands of years before the French Revolution, Marx, and Lenin.
The rival to the Bible
What is probably the oldest known Bible is being digitised, reuniting its scattered parts for the first time since its discovery 160 years ago. It is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What's left out?
The Earth After Us: What legacy will humans leave in the rocks?
Oxford University Press book description.