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pigeonchess.com
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| | | | | Charles Darwin once said that he thought the evidence from the comparative anatomy of embryos was "by far the strongest single class of facts" in favor of common descent (Darwin, 1860) and while it has since been eclipsed by genetics, it remains one of most compelling subsets of evidence for evolution. And perhaps the single... | |
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scienceblogs.com
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| | | | | Here is a working list of species concepts presently in play. I quote "Concepts" above because, for philosophical reasons, I think there is only one concept - "species", and all the rest are conceptions, or definitions, of that concept. I have christened this the Synapormorphic Concept of Species in (Wilkins 2003). More under the fold: A Summary of 26 species concepts | |
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freethoughtblogs.com
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| | | | | Menstruation is a peculiar phenomenon that women go through on a roughly monthly cycle, and it's not immediately obvious from an evolutionary standpoint why they do it. It's wasteful &m... | |
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windowsontheory.org
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| | | [Yet another "philosophizing" post, but one with some actual numbers. See also this follow up. --Boaz] Recently there have been many debates on "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) and whether or not we are close to achieving it by scaling up our current AI systems. In this post, I'd like to make this debate a bit... | ||
