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Racism After Biology Part II: Trump, Project 2025, and the Persistence of Hierarchy In Part I of this essay, I argued — following the settled conclusions of modern population genetics — that biological race does not exist. Human genetic variation is...
by Trenz Pruca
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on Sat Feb 07, 2026 at 07:16 PM PST
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One morning, on a whim, I said to my wife, “let’s go check out the Burke Museum.” So, we did.�In long form, the museum is known as the Burke�Museum of Natural History and Culture . In short ...
by BrownsBay
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on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 07:00 AM PST
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The Daily Bucket is a regular series from the Backyard Science group. Here we talk about Mother Nature in all her glory, especially the parts that live nearby. So let us know (as close as you are ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Wed Sep 17, 2025 at 07:01 AM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most ...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Jul 20, 2025 at 07:00 PM PDT
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A field biologist is, in many ways, a fortunate individual. They get to examine important, if often somewhat academic, questions, while spending time in the most fascinating parts of our planet. At least that is my opinion. I spent much of my career as...
by Desert Scientist
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on Mon Jun 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM PDT
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Being a field biologist does allow one to partake in interesting events. When I graduated from the University of Florida with a shiny new Ph.D. I was ready to settle in as a professor in some small university or college, teach zoology or entomology,...
by Desert Scientist
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on Thu Jun 05, 2025 at 10:14 AM PDT
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Ardipithecus ramidus is one of the most complete hominid skeletons found so far, and the earliest one to be unequivocally accepted as a bipedal human ancestor.
This is a diary series in which we ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Tue Sep 02, 2025 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Mar 30, 2025 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Orrorin is another contender for the title of “oldest known hominin”, but like Sahelanthropus it is steeped in controversy. This is a diary series in which we take a closer look at hominins, ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Tue May 27, 2025 at 01:00 PM PDT
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The first diary in a series which looks at significant species in the evolution of humans. This is a diary series in which we take a closer look at hominins, fossil ancestors of the human family.
by Lenny Flank
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on Tue Apr 08, 2025 at 12:55 PM PDT
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Hominins So, over the past few months I have been downloading some scanned 3d files of hominin skulls (human ancestors) and printing them out. A number of museums have made ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Sat Mar 08, 2025 at 07:07 AM PST
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Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish ...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Oct 27, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Hidden History: A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower...) These�vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Tue Oct 29, 2024 at 12:55 PM PDT
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One of the reasons that public education is often hated in this country is that many people like simple answers to difficult questions. As I noted in a diary on outreach a while back, when I was invited to speak on insects at a fundamentalist school, I...
by Desert Scientist
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on Mon Jun 03, 2024 at 01:17 PM PDT
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I've followed the general outlines of artificial abiogenesis experiments for decades now, but I did not see this coming. (And my apologies to any actual biologists who knew about this line of reseach ages ago and find this old news.) First some...
by JMcDonald
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
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This is footage from a hearing on a Transgender Bathroom bill in Ohio. All of it is fascinating but the most relevant portion 13:55 when Ranking Member Joe Miller (D) contrasts this bill with Racist Jim Crow laws, and the tendency to otherize people...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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While I’ve been filming the birds at my Huntsville feeder, I’ve also been watching the squirrels. One of the biggest and baddest of the lot is a male with a torn ear. This boar seems to be the dominant male, and I’ve watched him chase other males away...
by backwoodsbob
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 10:36 AM PST
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Sympoesis Despite the widely inaccurate view that we live in or on an environment and must therefore protect what we depend on, we are made up of environments (4 billion years worth of co-evolving associations, living and non-living) and moreover,...
by Campion
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 01:19 PM PST
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Like Christmas trees, Santa and reindeer, the poinsettia has long been a ubiquitous symbol of the holiday season in the U.S. and across Europe.
But now, nearly 200 years after the plant with the ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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I honestly don’t remember when or how I found out how human reproduction works. By the time my mother made my father have “The Talk” with me — because that is how that dynamic generally works, errr, I’ve been told — he asked me if I knew how that went...
by skralyx
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on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 10:24 PM PST
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