--Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2015, p74.
QotD: Homo sapiens is a veteran at driving extinctions
--Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2015, p74.
Posts from This Journal “evolution” Tag
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The Problem with Democracy: We are Horny, Greedy and Cruel
Democracy is based on the belief that people are more good than bad, that we are more curious than controlling, more playful than violent, and more…
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Cheetahs Near Extinction
Cheetah population crashes, raising threat of extinction The world's cheetah population is crashing, leaving the world's fastest land…
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Creationism Is Not a Theory
Creationism gets treated by religious people as if it were a viable theoretical alternative to Evolution. They do this in spite of the fact that…
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Dinosaur feathers
Ninety nine million years ago a dinosaur got its tail stuck in the sap. Then, in 2016, someone noticed some interesting stuff in the amber at a…
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The Scientific Method: A Primer
Among regular people there seems to be precious little understanding of what exactly the method is, and what it does and does not accomplish. This…
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QotD: Bernie is Clueless
What's distinctive about Sanders is not (or not simply) that he's an ideological purist who refuses to think pragmatically but that he…
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Donohue-Levitt Hypothesis: Legal Abortion --> Less Crime
This hypothesis may not be as well supported as evolution but there has been a lot of research since the 1970's that supports it. DONOHUE-LEVITT…
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Childless 1
I'm a 49 year old childless woman. I might have been fertile at one time but I am not anymore. I look at people with children and think they must…
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QotD: Reality
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. --Lily Tomlin
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