What is especially hilarious about the idea that "evolution has stopped" is that this is so plainly the belief of prosperous people living in peacetime, and ones with such a poor grasp of history that they imagine their current condition to be eternal when it is in fact that of merely a few generations at most ( Read more... )

I've come to the conclusion that there is no way that the Ponies are genus Equus (the one including our world's extant horses, donkeys and zebras, and numerous extinct varieties).  My reason for this conclusion are the existence of gross anatomical differences, even between the Earth Ponies and real horses.  (I mention the Earth Ponies because they ( Read more... )

Harvard scientists have successfully not merely stopped but reversed the ageing process in mice (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans).

The Harvard group focused on a process called ( Read more... )

I was thinking about the longevity of life on Earth, and I saw this interesting pattern. All the dates are very approximate, and I'm aware that my rounding may be creating a pattern where none really exists. Anyway, roughly ( Read more... )

The following is taken from a Usenet post in which I mused on the reasons why homosexual behavior occurs naturally in many species, including humans.
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