Archive for December, 2008

 

Big find: 1630 million-yr-old fossil (discovery evidence of multicellular life in India)

December 16th, 2008

India finally has evidence of multicellular life. Geo-scientists have discovered multicellular megascopic fossils on the Indian soil from the Palaeoproterozoic era. The fossil dates back to 1630 million years from now.
This exceptional evidence of megascopic eukaryote (multicellular) fossils, an indication of existence of life through sexual reproduction, comes from Chopan in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Located […]

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Biological Origins of Morality

December 13th, 2008

Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson, the founder of sociobiology that his fellow Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin pilloried, because he did not, like Gould and Lewontin, deny adaptationism as Marxism requires, has written a nice article on the origins of morality in the Atlantic magazine. (After two decades, Wilson prevailed and Gould […]

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