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What if we took the 'struggle for life' seriously again?
How should we view The Selfish Gene 50 years on?
Physics has such nice equations and universal laws. Could we ever expect to find similar principles or axioms for biology?
Should we give Mendel's peas a chance? Nah, we've moved on.
"Physics is the most fundamental and all-inclusive of the sciences." Or is it?
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Complex neural pathways likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times. The post Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals first appeared on Quanta Magazine
[Originally posted on the Terraform blog April 3, 2025.] Three years ago we set out to make cheap synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. At the time I didn’t fully appreciate that we had kicked off the process of recompiling the foundation layer of our entire industrial stack. Last year, we made cheap pipeline grade natural gas from sunlight and air and expanded our hydrocarbon fuel road map to include methanol, a versatile liquid fuel and chemical precursor for practically every other kind of oil-derived chemical on the market. Unlimited synthetic methane and methanol underpinning global energy supply is a good start, but …
From the last 6 months | Q4 2024 and Q1 2025
This really is just a coincidence – I posted yesterday about using AI and modern genetic engineering technology, with one application being the de-extinction of species. I had not seen the news from yesterday about a company that just announced it has cloned three dire wolves from ancient DNA. This is all over the news, […] The post De-extincting the Dire Wolf first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.
The difference comes down to regulation, not culture.
