By Mary Anne Schoenhardt, Science in Society editor What comes to mind when you think of the term Anthropocene? A […]
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Book Review: Unrooted, by Erin Zimmerman
(Note: Erin is a friend so my review may not be entirely unbiased) Erin Zimmerman completed a PhD at the Université de Montréal in evolutionary biology. She followed this up with a postdoctoral position at the university’s biodiversity institute. She is now a science writer, and has been published in Narratively, Undark, the LA Review...
Beyond expectations
What can we conclude from the rash of published papers with obvious fingerprints of ChatGPT?
Over the last few weeks, there’s been a small flood of cases where a published paper turns out to have clear fingerprints of its authors’ use of ChatGPT (or other so-called “artificial intelligence” tools). By “fingerprints” I don’t mean the kind of odd-but-acceptable phrasing ChatGPT sometimes comes up with. I mean laugh-out-loud ridiculous things like...
Population explosion
Desiccation
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Technostalgia
Age Is Just a Number, and That Number is 142
Researchers have pinpointed 142 physiological traits where proximity to a homeostatic "sweet spot" is a predictor of good health as we age. Get the full story Age Is Just a Number, and That Number is 142
Episode 160: An introduction to Evolutionary Biology
The field of evolutionary biology has been greatly influenced by the development of modern genetic methodology. The understanding of genes, genomes and the molecular mechanisms key to life on Earth are all goals of evolutionary biology in the 21st century, yet its potential applications seem to be near limitless. Palaeontology and evolutionary biology continue to...