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As for the Norse settlements scattered around Britain and Europe, their inhabitants intermarried with the locals and finally disappeared as a distinct people. All that remains of them is their language and genes, spread widely through the Western world. Unlike Columbus, the Vikings may not have established a permanent presence...
The problem with such scientific forgiveness is that it may give human beings, with their much celebrated free will, too little credit. Most mothers will love and nurture even an unwanted infant because, well, it seems the right thing to do. Most will stretch their resources to the breaking point...
David Anderson and his colleagues at Cal Tech have, for example, identified many environmental triggers that get the nervous system's stem cells to turn into neurons or into their supporting glial cells. They've also gone inside stem cells to isolate the genes responsible for the transformations. As with...
In the long term, I am convinced, the quenching of life's exuberance will be more consequential to humanity than all of present-day global warming, ozone depletion and pollution combined. Why? For practical reasons, if nothing else. Humanity's food supply comes from a dangerously narrow sliver of biodiversity...
Natural pharmaceuticals offered by biodiversity are also underutilized. Only a few hundred wild species have served to stock our antibiotics, anticancer agents, pain killers and blood thinners. The biochemistry of the vast majority--millions--of other species is an unfathomed reservoir of new and potentially more effective substances. The reason...