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Llevo diez años como biólogo profesional, pasé por formación doctoral, y es la primera vez que escucho algo como "biológicamente correcto". En la naturaleza no hay gradación moral para las conductas o interacciones entre individuos.

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Please goodness let this not be controversial. Anyway, interesting tidbits about history and social perception!! I’m gonna go not pass out while getting blood drawn 🤞- 🦎

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The smartest talent doesn't flow to biology because evolution already optimized away the easy problems. Physics gives you clean equations, CS gives you instant feedback loops, but biology gives you 3 billion years of accumulated technical debt with terrible documentation. What looks like a lack of talent is actually a... See more

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James Drake and Stuart Pimm of the University of Tennessee study what it takes to arrive at an assembly of species that remain in equilibrium, a condition farmers would obvously want for their domestic prairie. Unlike The Land staff, they do their experiments with ecosystems in a computer (artificial life) and with aquatic organisms in glass tanks

Janine M. Benyus • Biomimicry

Scientists and animal lovers had long observed that as life gets bigger, it slows down. Flies live for hours or days; elephants live for half-centuries. The hearts of birds and small mammals pump blood much faster than those of giraffes and blue whales. But the relationship between size and speed didn’t seem to be a linear one.

Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From

Let me tell you a story. It'll end up at the current tech-bio and protein design scene. But the story starts about 25 years earlier. Did you know that, commercially, the human genome project precipitated the end and not the start of a genomics boom? 1/

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Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, and author of the best basic explanatory tome on Darwinism, Why Evolution Is True

Adam Gopnik • The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

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The longevity genes I work on are called “sirtuins,” named after the yeast SIR2 gene, the first one to be discovered. There are seven sirtuins in mammals, SIRT1 to SIRT7, and they are made by almost every cell in the body. When I started my research, sirtuins were barely on the scientific radar. Now this family of genes is at the forefront of... See more

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Janine M. Benyus • Biomimicry

Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From

Adam Gopnik • The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante • Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To