Natural Science Forum / Biology / Evolution / October 2004

phillip smith <deletethis-phills@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
William Morse wrote:
"Anon." <bob.ohara@NOSPAM.helsinki.fi> wrote in news:cl65sn$ave$1

P.S. I thought I was alone in my belief intelligent life could modify
the physical laws of the universe for its own purposes. Many may
strongly disagree with Freeman Dyson but I don't think anybody would
justifiably consider him a crackpot.

How far are we from being able to answer the why question?
We know inanimate salts tends to form crystals in order to minimize
energy
from our physics course. But this is very far from being ble to

Meteor strike may not have killed dinos
12 October 2004
By KENT ATKINSON
http://www.stuff.co.nz

Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton
By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer
In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian
island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned

History of Darwinism
Peter J. Bowler
Why do we remember Charles Darwin? there are two reasons for celebrating
the theory he proposed in his Origin of Species (1859), although they

If hominids were scavengers on the East African plains 2-4 M years ago, as
we are led to believe, they likely would have developed a fondness for the
smell of carrion, or at least an ability to tolerate it.  Such is quite the
opposite in modern humans. One would think that such a ...

http://www.ryerson.ca/~woc/2002_ Conference/papers/newcombe.html
SELF-ORGANIZATION OF HUMAN SOCIETY Hanna Newcombe
Peace Research Institute, Dundas Ontario
The whole Universe evolves, so does life on Earth, and so does human

 Hi SBE
   Groupthink is a concept that was identified by Irving Janis and refers
to faulty decision-making in a group. Groups experiencing groupthink do not
consider all alternatives and they desire unanimity at the expense of

Amphibians Suffering Unprecedented Decline, Global Study Finds
The first worldwide assessment of amphibians--the group that includes frogs,
toads, salamanders and caecilians--concludes that they are in even more
trouble than mammals and birds are. The study classifies nearly a third ...

Human gene number slashed
Human beings have far fewer genes than originally thought, a
consortium of scientists have claimed in Nature.
The researchers compared the draft human genome with the "gold

INSTINCT, MYTH AND THE DECISION TO GO TO WAR
President George W. Bush said that on 9/11, informed the country was
under attack and staring off into space, he remembers thinking, "They
had declared war on us, and I made up my mind at that moment that we

AGGRESSION AND HUMAN NATURE
In addition, as we have seen, to being an integral aspect of warfare,
human aggression also raises some basic and profound questions
concerning human nature itself. Certainly what we think about aggression

I would suggest that there is never a safe moment
when prebiotic molecules that are not already
stable (adapted?) in that environment,
will survive in that environment - no