In the September issue of Discover, Kathleen McAuliffe has written a superb article on the shrinking human brain. Razib commented on it yesterday:
For several millions years up to ~200,000 years ago there was a study increase in hominin cranial capacities. I say hominin because it seems that this increase was evident in all branches of [...]
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Over at HuffPo Religion, Deepak Chopra opines on the non-existent “war between science and religion.” Religion is of course being investigated by scientists and examined by historians, but this does not make the interrogation a war. Religion is simply another object or category of positivist inquiry.
Chopra’s piece begins with some surprising concessions:
What is the war [...]
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As Tom Rees notes over at Epiphenom: “There’s a new paper out by Satoshi Kanazawa which is causing a bit of a stir.” Indeed. I saw the paper when it came out and decided almost immediately not to touch it in this forum. Why? Several reasons.
First, the title itself (“Why Liberals and Atheists are more [...]
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