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...Lots of people eat insects: nearly 3,000 ethnic groups in 113 countries, according to Professor Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, a biologist at the National University of Mexico. Some 1,400 kinds of bugs are known to be edible, and considering that the earth may have millions of insect species?they are the world's dominant class of animals?there are many more ripe for munching...
...proceed, one generation to the next, through genes and memes. It was the Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins who proposed some years ago that, just as genetics has genes, culture must have its own units of transmission, which he called "memes"-ideas of all kinds, images, tunes, games, concepts, movies, books, gestures, all the propagating thoughts that leap from mind to mind and, in our interactive information culture, have become a chaotically boiling universal soup...
...very distinguished scholar in a field that is distinctly different from my own,” said Tilghman, who is, by profession, a molecular biologist. “She is a political philosopher and therefore brings knowledge of a part of the university with which a scientist like myself would not be familiar...
...when John Alroy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, put the question of what happened to the megafauna to a computer model, he got back a surprising answer. As he reported in the journal Science last week, the overkill hypothesis is actually quite plausible. That's because it was not necessary for human hunters to do in every last animal. All people had to do was kill slightly more animals than were born, a process that Alroy's model suggests could easily have taken place over a span of 1,000 years. Ecological upheavals owing...
...Stuart Kauffman--philosopher, medical doctor, evolutionary biologist and entrepreneur--all these problems underscore a single phenomenon: complex, self-organizing systems continuously adapt to and change with their environments but do so in ways that are impossible to predict. It's a head scratcher. In a universe damned by entropy to gradual dissolution, things sure seem pretty well put together. So, how is it that evolving systems as diverse as the biosphere, your immune system or the global economy have grown from nothing into organizations of imponderable complexity...