Posts Tagged ‘evolution’
NESCent panel on intersection of public policy, economics, & evolution
Thursday, November 26, 2009, 4:02 amNESCent Catalysis Meeting, coorganized by the Evolution Institute was on November 13-15, 2009 and several of the participants remained another day and came to NESCent on the 16th to report on the meeting in a form of a panel. The meeting and the panel were organized by David Sloan Wilson, professor of evolution at Binghamton University and one of my newest SciBlings. The other panelists were Dennis Embry, John Gowdy, Douglas Kenrick, Joel Peck, Harvey Whitehouse and Peter Turchin.
Steven Churchill at Sigma Xi
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 6:00 amSteven Churchill is a professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. His focus is on the role of projectile weapons in the evolution of humans. Dr.Churchill gave a talk at Sigma Xi as a part of their Pizza Lunch monthly series.
A path to Eureka
Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 10:33 amIt hit me when my mind wandered through a blog post by Robert Lee Hotz, a Wall Street Journal science writer, about research that explores the brain during sudden Eureka moments. Also a contributing factor was a book, that, as I’m reading it, makes me wonder whether it’s smarter to be a nematode or a human.
