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Creationism as a form of intellectual doublethink
Troitsky variant. — 2008. — No 7N (821). — p. 6.
August session: retirement age
Sixty years ago, the August session of VASKHIL took place, during which the Lyseynkovites—“Mitchurinites”—with party support triumphed over the classical geneticists. Should we recall this event? A boy born in …
Three old news items: from molecular systematics to nanotechnologies and genetic engineering
Paradoxes of systematics. One of the influential schools of systematics states: if species change cannot be evaluated “objectively”, it should not be taken into account at all and only the …
Lies, Damned Lies and…
…Statistics. Today its use is an almost mandatory condition for scientific work in many fields, including zoology. It will be no great news if I say that statistics are used …
Shabanov (2006) Humans, hybrids, frogs
[An already quite old article in Computerre, which, in my opinion, may still be of some interest due to its discussion of possible scenarios in interspecific hybridization and the evolutionary …
Two articles on global warming
The warm road to Kyoto. If the threat of climate change forces humanity as a whole and each individual to reconsider the motives of their activity, it may play a …
Four old news items on genetics and phylogeny
See the past. The present is a consequence of, and, if you will, a hostage of the past. Any development is a conflict between memory (the preservation of system properties) …
Four news about not quite classical genetics
Genetics: between victory and defeat. A powerful source of hereditary variability has been registered, which until now remained underestimated. A kinship view from the shell. The genes that “account” for …
Three old news items about the planet we have altered and its pristine areas
The planet is in collective ownership. Russians clearly remember the sad experience of farming in kolkhozes – it should be obvious to them. Unfortunately, the planet is still under communal …
New Methods and Systematics: Two Erstwhile Items of Note
If it is not on the Internet, does it not exist? The Internet is becoming the primary mirror of human activity — from politics to pornography. Ciliates, butterflies, whales, and …
Tiktalik and evolution
The description of *Tiktaalik* — one of the earliest tetrapod species — provides an excellent opportunity to discuss the evolution of quadrupeds and the principles of phylogenetic reconstruction