December 22, 2024
Evolution and Cooperation as depicted by handshake between a human and monkey

Natural Selection and Cooperation

On the 160th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, Bryan Gitschlag looks the role of cooperation in evolution from the molecular ...
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Do Prejudice, Bias, Opposition, Antagonism have an evolutionary basis? Tribalism

Us vs Them: What Drives Prejudice?

Feautred Image courtesy: Max Pixel.net Hey folks, This Fun Fact is about why humanity divides itself into groups of “us” versus “them,” and how prejudice ...
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This picture where Sushruta performs surgery in Ancient India shows the relationship between science and the East

On the Shoulders of Giants: Science and the East

Photo by Biswarup Ganguly. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You may have heard before that science owes its existence to Western Civilization. ...
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