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For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm John Dankosky. My next guest is the lead author of that paper. CHARLES BROWN: Hello, John. Darwin's Finches. BBC Nature - Giant squid genetics reveal family secrets. 20 March 2013Last updated at 07:53 By Ella Davies Reporter, BBC Nature An artist's impression of the shy submariner Giant squid around the world are "basically identical" despite looking very different, say scientists.
The super-sized cephalopods live deep in the oceans and are little-known by the scientific community. An international team of researchers investigated rare samples of the elusive animals' DNA to reveal their family secrets. They discovered that there is just a single species of squid with no population structure. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Global Brain Institute. It's Called 'De-Extinction' — It's Like 'Jurassic Park,' Except It's Real : The Picture Show.
Sorry to disappoint, but science writer Carl Zimmer says we're not going to bring back dinosaurs.
But, he says, "science has developed to the point where we can actually talk seriously about possibly bringing back more recently extinct species. " It's called "de-extinction" — and it's Zimmer's cover story for National Geographic's April issue. Resurrection Tintypes To capture the mood of this story, National Geographic hired tintype photographer Robb Kendrick. He used a nearly extinct photo technique to capture museum exhibits of extinct species. Hide caption The bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex, lived high in the Pyrenees until its extinction in 2000. How Beer Gave Us Civilization. How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary "Übermind" Is Inevitable. Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. To the Republic of Geneva Magnificent, most honorable, and sovereign lords Convinced that only the virtuous citizen may justifiably give his native land honours which it can accept, I have been working for thirty years to become worthy of offering you public homage; and since this happy occasion supplements in part what my efforts have not been able to accomplish, I believed that I would be permitted here to follow the zeal which animates me rather than the right which ought to act as my authorization.
Having had the good fortune to be born among you, how could I reflect on the equality which nature has set among men and on the inequality which they have instituted, without thinking about the profound wisdom with which both of these, happily combined in this State, work together in a manner most closely approaching natural law and most favourable to society to maintain public order and the happiness of individuals? I am, with the most profound respect, paradise.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/Poincare_Reflections.pdf. Leon Kass on Science and Religion. Leon Kass has written an article for Commentary (April 2007)on "Science, Religion, and the Human Future.
"Steven Pinker and others have written responses to the article. Since Kass's article is a good summary of his ideas about modern science and its limitations, reading the article has stirred me to ponder my points of agreement and disagreement with his thinking. I will begin with the points of agreement. (The next five paragraphs are taken from my article on "Darwinian Liberal Education" in the fall 2006 issue of Academic Questions.) As a young man, I decided that what Leo Strauss called the "fundamental dilemma" of modernity explained the loss of liberal education as a comprehensive study of the whole. Darwin and philosophy. Read So people like Richard Dawkins took it upon themselves to explain altruism and ethics through natural evolutionary processes.
And, even though Dawkins himself explicitly says that this doesn’t in any way undermine ethics, word got out. It’s an easy misunderstanding to make to think "oh well, if altruism develops through the selfishness of our genes, to use Dawkins’ very interesting phrase …" So Dawkins’ idea was that human beings just carry this genetic material around, and the genetic material - and this is a kind of misleading metaphor - wants to preserve itself, and this in some way manifests itself in the way human beings behave to each other. Ruse, M., ed.: Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Darwin's Legacy. Darwinism & Philosophy. Darwinism & Philosophy is a highly diverse and very interesting collection of essays on the philosophical implications of Darwinism, originating from a conference on this topic held at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, in March 2001.
The authors explore, in a variety of ways, what 'Darwin's dangerous idea' (Daniel Dennett) entails for doing philosophy. With the introduction of Darwin's theory of natural selection, so it is widely believed, something very important occurred for philosophy, something that fundamentally shattered philosophy's traditional self understanding -- shattered in such a drastic sense that it has been forced to give up many of its time-honoured and cherished certainties and radically temper most of its original pretensions.
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