188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like
If extraterrestrial life is out there — not just microbial slime, but big, complex, macroscopic organisms — what will they […]
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185 | Arvid Ågren on the Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution
One of the brilliant achievements of Darwin’s theory of natural selection was to help explain apparently “purposeful” or “designed” aspects
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175 | William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution
We’ve talked about the very origin of life, but certain transitions along its subsequent history were incredibly important. Perhaps none
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166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life
In the question to understand the biology of life, we are (so far) limited to what happened here on Earth.
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165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
It’s pretty clear that our genes affect, though they don’t completely determine, who we grow up to be; children’s physical
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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
Physics is extremely good at describing simple systems with relatively few moving parts. Sadly, the world is not like that;
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157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology
Natural selection has done a pretty good job at creating a wide variety of living species, but we humans can’t
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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
A common argument against free will is that human behavior is not freely chosen, but rather determined by a number
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132 | Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self
As a semi-outsider, it’s fun for me to watch as a new era dawns in biology: one that adds ideas
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127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People
Many characteristics go into making human beings special — brain size, opposable thumbs, etc. Surely one of the most important
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