Biology – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:43:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Biology – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Minds Entwined: The Branching Paths of Human Evolution https://brewminate.com/minds-entwined-the-branching-paths-of-human-evolution/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:13:22 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=261457 To write the history of human evolution is to confront the role of contingency. The growth of the

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]]> Myths of Doubt: The Persistence of Anti-Evolutionary Arguments in Historical Perspective https://brewminate.com/myths-of-doubt-the-persistence-of-anti-evolutionary-arguments-in-historical-perspective/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:12:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=261466 Evolution is not “just a theory.” It is the framework by which biology makes sense. Its reality is

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]]> Brodmann’s Grids to Neural Networks: The Historical Cartography of the Brain https://brewminate.com/brodmanns-grids-to-neural-networks-the-historical-cartography-of-the-brain/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:11:19 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=261482 As neuroscience advances, the temptation will be to see each new map as definitive. Yet history counsels humility.

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]]> On the Face of It: Darwin and the Evolution of Expression https://brewminate.com/on-the-face-of-it-darwin-and-the-evolution-of-expression/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:16:05 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=229198 An experiment led to a lifelong study of expressions — and to breakthroughs in psychology. By Dr. James

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]]> We Are Family: Tracing the Evolution of Animals over 3 Billion Years https://brewminate.com/we-are-family-tracing-the-evolution-of-animals-over-3-billion-years/ Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:44:44 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=243044 Commonalities offer a trove of clues about our mutual past. By Amber DanceScience Journalist Introduction Once upon a

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]]> The Conservative Authoritarian War on Ideas Goes after Biology https://brewminate.com/the-conservative-authoritarian-war-on-ideas-goes-after-biology/ Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:48:23 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=243198 Revision and denial is their song and dance. By Dr. C. Brandon OgbunuProfessor of Biology and EcologyYale University

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]]> Stanley Miller Searching for the Origins of Life in 1953 https://brewminate.com/stanley-miller-searching-for-the-origins-of-life-in-1953/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:32:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=240724 The chemical processes that led to the origin of life have always fascinated scientists. By Dr. Isabel Pérez-CastroSenior

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]]> Deep Oceans and Shallow Pools: Searching High and Low for the Origins of Life https://brewminate.com/deep-oceans-and-shallow-pools-searching-high-and-low-for-the-origins-of-life/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:14:50 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=228627 Researchers think they’re getting warmer. By Anne N. ConnorSenior Science WriterThe Johns Hopkins University Introduction Hot, bubbling fissures

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]]> Phenology and the Beginnings of Historical Climatology in the Nineteenth Century https://brewminate.com/phenology-and-the-beginnings-of-historical-climatology-in-the-nineteenth-century/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:49:50 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=229001 The word is derived from the Greek phainō – “to show, to bring to light, make to appear”.

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]]> Common Evolution: Other Primates Shrink Social Networks with Age – Just Like Humans https://brewminate.com/common-evolution-other-primates-shrink-social-networks-with-age-just-like-humans/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:16:01 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=207135 Understanding the evolutionary roots of age-based changes in social focus. Introduction There are many changes that can come

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