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Extinction marks the evolutionary death of a species. Observing the fates of many species ancient and recent, it appears to be Nature’s mechanism of periodically clearing out the…
Everybody hiccups, especially often as children. The mysterious physiological phenomenon is surrounded by plenty of folklore. Hiccups are an excuse to eat spoonfuls of sugar and try to…
When Darwin published On the Origin of Species 150 years ago, he may not have realized the rippling effects it would have throughout history. The work engendered a…
Philosophers conjecture that, thousands of years from now, humans will have evolved into a post-human entity, no longer limited by the relatively fragile nature of our bodies. Computing…
We have all seen it in action in others, as well as in ourselves. It is one of the few things that puzzled the Father of Evolution, Charles…