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Category Archives: Nature-Nurture

What is a disease?

  By Greg Laden | February 12, 2008 - 9:41 am | Cell Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Health, Human Evolution, Natural Selection, Nature-Nurture
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i-fc0baa42c324cefa8495fdb0044234b2-dice.jpg“Disease” is a big word. I’d like to address this question by focusing on the difference, or lack of difference, between a poison, a disease, and a yummy thing to eat. It turns out that they may all be the same. Yet different. (more…)

The Myers – Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me

  By Greg Laden | February 8, 2008 - 10:51 am | Creationism, Human Evolution, Nature-Nurture, Origin of Modern Humans, Religion, Science Education
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Last night, the Campus Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists club (C.A.S.H.) presented a debate between PZ Myers and Loyal Rue on the question: Can religion and science co-exist? I witnessed this event and would like to tell you what happened. (more…)

Study Suggests Increased Rate of Human Adaptive Evolution

  By Greg Laden | December 10, 2007 - 5:00 pm | Archaeology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Human Evolution, Morphology and Diet, Nature-Nurture
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There is a new paper, just coming out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that explores the idea that humans have undergone an increased rate of evolution over the last several tens of thousands of years. (more…)

Nature and Nurture

  By Greg Laden | November 15, 2007 - 6:52 pm | Nature-Nurture
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All of the following stories have one thing in common: They relate to the Nature-Nurture issue. (more…)

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