Word: speciesism
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“The Xeno Chronicles” leaves the reader with little clue of what the future of xenotransplantion will hold, and whether xenotransplantation or stem cell-generated organs will win the race to supply our species with replacement organs. (The scientific community generally believes that at least one...
The world of paleontology was thrown into an uproar last year when Australian scientists Michael Morwood and Peter Brown claimed they?d found fossils from an entirely new (though presumably extinct) human species, which they dubbed Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. For one thing, the diminutive creatures...
Another of Morwood and Brown?s theories-that their hobbits evolved directly from Homo erectus, which was thought to have died out a half-million or so years ago-which the critics lambasted, is now looking less likely. But their new idea is even more audacious: the hobbits, they suggest...
Though Campos, a self-proclaimed theater fan, said he wanted the Hasty Pudding construction completed as soon as possible, he still wished to preserve the street’s greenery. “It’s one of the few places in the city that has the effect of...
Asia's endangered species are being ravaged by rising demand. Just a few of the animals targeted by poachers: