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- Humans
Greed may breed financial fitness, but evolution allows unselfishness to survive
If greed is good, as Gordon Gekko proclaimed in the 1987 movie Wall Street, then economics ought to be a superlative science. After all, at the core of economic theory sits a greedy idealization of human nature known as Homo economicus. It’s a fictitious species that represents the individual economic agent, motivated by selfishness. H. […]
- Earth
Toxic waste sites may cause health problems for millions
Exposures to lead and chromium represent particular problems, study finds in India, Indonesia and Philippines.
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- Anthropology
Paleofantasy
What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk.
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- Science & Society
Between Man and Beast
An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel.
- Science & Society
A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox
Johannes Schöner and the Revolution of Modern Science 1474-1550 by John W. Hessler.
- Humans
Human ancestors had taste for meat, brains
A mix of hunting and scavenging fed carnivorous cravings of early Homo species.
- Neuroscience
Pieces of Light
How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts by Charles Fernyhough.
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Upcoming events
Science Future for May 18, 2013.
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SN Online
GENES & CELLS See a roundup of some of the latest discoveries about China’s H7N9 virus in “ New bird flu claims more victims .” ENVIRONMENT Lake Erie is loaded with tiny pieces of plastic containing toxic pollutants. Read “Puny plastic particles mar Lake Erie’s waters.” HUMANS Male attractiveness relies on a combination of body […]
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Whistling noises give news from atmosphere
Science Past from the issue of May 18, 1963.
