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Category Archives: Biology
Contest Competition
Wikipedia says: “In ecology, contest competition refers to a situation where available resources, such as food and mates, are utilized only by one or a few individuals, thus preventing development or reproduction of other individuals. It refers to a hypothetical … Continue reading
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What is Ethology?
According to Gemini: Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behavior, typically conducted in natural environments. It focuses on understanding both innate instincts and learned behaviors, examining how heredity, evolution, and physiological mechanisms drive how animals interact with … Continue reading
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The Credentialed Dissident: Jean-François Gariépy and the YouTube Era
Jean‑François Gariépy emerged from the intersection of academic neuroscience, internet subcultures, and dissident political media during the second half of the 2010s. Trained in biology and neuroscience in Québec, he completed doctoral work on respiratory neural networks at the Université … Continue reading
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Ernst Mayr: Population Thinking and the Shape of Modern Biology
Ernst Mayr is born on July 5, 1904, in Kempten, Bavaria. His father Otto works as a district prosecutor and keeps a serious amateur interest in natural history. The boys learn bird identification on family walks, and Ernst absorbs the … Continue reading
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The Synthesizer at Stanford: An Intellectual Biography of Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky was born in Brooklyn in 1957 to Soviet Jewish immigrants. His father worked as an architect. His mother kept an Orthodox household. As a boy he haunted the African dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. By … Continue reading
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Nathan Cofnas: The Auditor at the Border
Part Two Born in 1987 to Jewish parents, philosopher of biology Nathan Cofnas said in a Dec. 4, 2023 interview: “I grew up on the upper west side of Manhattan, a world headquarters of political correctness. I went to school … Continue reading
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NYT: Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds
Carl Zimmer writes in the New York Times April 15, 2026: Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of … Continue reading
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The Camouflage Imperative
Biosocial scientists and anyone who takes the heritable, evolutionary component of human behavior seriously are operating in an environment engineered for asymmetric punishment under uncertain evidence. Modern elite institutions, especially academia but also large segments of media, foundations, NGOs, and … Continue reading
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The Standard Social Science Model
I don’t like to rock the boat. I prefer to go along to get along. I don’t know much about biology, just a concept here and there, and sure, at times, they seem useful for understanding society, but I know … Continue reading
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Hybrid Vigor & Other Useful Biological Theories For Understanding Society
According to Wikipedia: “Heterosis, hybrid vigor, or outbreeding enhancement is the improved or increased function of any biological quality in a hybrid offspring… Typical heterotic/hybrid traits of interest in agriculture are higher yield, quicker maturity, stability, drought tolerance etc.” I … Continue reading
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