Daily Mail “Did dogs help humans conquer the world? Man’s best friend may be the reason why we flourished over the Neanderthals” The Atlantic “Humanity’s Best Friend: How Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat the Neanderthals“
A Minor Post, Animal Domestication, Articles, Canids, Homo species, Human EvolutionLife “Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life” Over 100 pages and exactly 800 citations later, I am still not sure.
A Minor Post, Articles, EvolutionBMC Biology “Evolving a photosynthetic organelle” What I find fascinating about this particular protist is that it suggests that the endosymbiotic acquisition of chloroplasts may not have been a singular event, and protists may continue to incorporate new bacteria, creating potential for novel evolutionary change.
A Minor Post, Articles, MutualismTrends in Ecology & Evolution “Punishment and cooperation in nature“
A Minor Post, Articles, Cooperation, PunishmentBreakthrough Journal “Love Your Monsters” Interesting concept here of “political ecology”. I have never heard of this term, but it provides a pretty nice distinction between the science of ecology and those social and political movements that seek to make us more respectful of the ecological systems on which we depend. What is a little Read More
A Minor Post, Articles, Ecology, Political Science, SustainabilityNature “Transient dynamics of an altered large marine ecosystem“
A Minor Post, Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Conservation Biology, Extinction, Sustainable HarvestingYale University Press “Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation“
A Minor Post, Articles, Behavior, Cooperation, Political ScienceThe Chronicle of Higher Education “Campus Sustainability: It’s About People” Think about it: the civil rights movement and the environmentalist movements were born in the same era. Which has accomplished more in the last fifty years?
A Minor Post, Articles, SustainabilityThe New York Times “Why We Lie“
A Minor Post, Articles, Behavior, Communication, Human EvolutionThe Wall Street Journal “Making Ourselves at Home” Mark Pagel “Wired for Culture“
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