Schedules and appropriate links for the following programmes have been entered in the Calendar (http://www.localendar.com/public/jorolat): Nature (UK Radio) ...
Copy of a 1997 Scientific American article giving an overview of events since the 1988 publication of John Cairns' (et al.) "Origin of Mutants" article: ...
Introduction: "In 1988 a minor collision occurred between natural reality and evolutionary theory when an article entitled "The Origin of Mutants" [1] appeared...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Preliminary Discourse PART ONE Considerations of the Natural History of Animals, Their Characteristics, Their Interrelationships,...
Introduction: "Chapel Hill -- In 1862, British naturalist Henry Bates proposed -- but could not prove -- that over time, some animal and plant species that...
Introduction: "Through an experiment giving sight to a normally blind cave-dwelling fish, researchers hope to get a better understanding of certain forms of...
The following audio files are available in the "Recorded Programmes" folder of the "Bookmarks" section: Anthropology Update / 'Future Evolution' (Mar '02) ...
[Press Release 17th June '02:] "Life did not begin with one primordial cell. Instead, there were initially at least three simple types of loosely constructed...
J. Mark Baldwin's Original Paper (published in 1896) in which be proposed the concept known today as "The Baldwin Effect": Abstract "In several recent...
[Badyaev and Hill, June '02] "Adaptation to the environment is the cornerstone of Darwinian natural selection. Among the most conspicuous consequences of this ...
[Historical Review, Genetics, Dec '01] Evolution by Jumps: Francis Galton and William Bateson and the Mechanism of Evolutionary Change: "FRANCIS Galton...
[J. Rennie, Editor in Chief Sci-Am, Jun 17 '02]: "Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments...
[18 Jun '02] 1) Press Release (UniSci) 2) Published article (Journal of Biology) 1) Genes Next To One Another May Be Expressed Together "Our current...
A selection to today's Press Releases and News Headlines: 1) Sealed coffin found near pyramids CAIRO, Egypt, June 17 — Archaeologists have found the world's...
[Amaral, de Oliveira] "Throughout its evolution, the human brain has acquired three components that progressively appeared and became superposed, just like in...
The following audio files are in the Recorded Programmes folder of "Booknarks" at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech/links Animal Intelligence (Oct '99) ...
[Lewis & Palevitz, Jun '01] "The Human Genome Project's discovery that the human body runs on an instruction manual of a mere 35,000 or so genes--compared to...
[Wright, Journal of Bacteriology, Jun'00] Introduction: As this minireview is concerned with the importance of the environment in directing evolution, it is...
Dr. James Watson, President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Watson recounts events that led up to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in...
A selection of today's Press Releases and News Headlines: 1) African Predator 'Rediscovered' in Tanzania A WCS scientist working in southeastern Tanzania has...
[Barrier et al., PNAS, Aug '01] Abstract: "The disparity between rates of morphological and molecular evolution remains a key paradox in evolutionary genetics....
[Gould & Lewontin, Royal Society of London, '78] Abstract: "An adaptationist programme has dominated evolutionary thought in england and the United States...
[Boxmind, '01] "There is balance in a rainforest, structure in a reef community, an elegant meshing of parts which recalls coadaptation within an animal body....
In 1640 Galileo Galilei wrote a letter to Fortunio Liceti in which he said: "If Aristotle were to see the new discoveries recently [made] in the heavens, whose...
A selection of today's Press Releases and News Headlines: 1) Space rock's close approach Astronomers have revealed that on 14 June, an asteroid the size of a ...
NATURE: The Cuckoo (Monday) "..Davies has found that reed warblers are able to distinguish between their own eggs and cuckoos eggs so the cuckoo tailors its ...
[Chicurel, Jun '01] "Intriguing hints from cell and molecular biologists suggest that they might, but evolutionary biologists are not yet convinced. In...
[Ariew, '96] Abstarct: "Cognitive scientists often employ the notion of innateness without defining it. The issue is, how is innateness defined in biology?...
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