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Monkeys, dogmas and “Jenkin’s nightmare”
Monkey processes. Human as a monkey. “Evolutionism” is not a synonym of “Darwinism”. The essence of “Jenkin’s nightmare” and a quotation from his article. Holdeyn’s paradox (inefficiency of selection on …
Sleep—and dream?
A rather old column in which an attempt was made to explain the phenomenon of sleep. Since its publication, the situation seems to me to have fundamentally not changed. It …
Two evolutionary articles
Darwin in open access. About the Internet archive of classic texts by Darwin and his contemporaries. In search of the arrow shooter. Genocentric myths and the epigenetic theory of evolution.
Brain restoration and a rich inner world
Reflections on miraculous recoveries. Tomography showed that the damaged areas of the brain did not regenerate: instead, other areas formed in their place. Today the world is a computer, and …
A Couple of News Items About Wine and Resveratrol
In vino valetudo. Imagine that a day will come when your absent-mindedness begins to catch the eye of others more and more often. Innocent jokes about questions repeated several times …
On Animal Behavior
On word order in a sentence. Starlings can analyze the order of "words" in a "sentence". Alarm! Among the most complex vocal signals of vervet monkeys are predator-warning calls. Reflections …
On the psyche of other organisms
Chicken brains. Birds are capable of many things, but the most astonishing is what the African grey parrot Alex learned. How else can one understand you? Do other animals experience …
"Frankenstein's Food" and the Right to Truth
So does a person have the right to know what they eat? Of course they do. But they also have the right to a proper understanding of that knowledge. What …
About the man of Flores Island
Other people. The most dissimilar representatives of our genus. Homo floresiensis. Tell me, who is your enemy… Knowing which enemies the people we are interested in defended themselves against, we …
On human evolution
The origin of humans: where is the beginning of that end, which concludes the beginning? About the endless searches for the “intermediate link”. Ten thousand generations of ancestors. The earliest …
Five news items about extraterrestrials
And on the eighth day did the Creator create aliens? Some commentators assume that such statements by a high‑ranking priest‑scientist may reflect some data available to the Vatican about extraterrestrial …
Six old news items about our relationships with other animals
Become the way I want. The toy must be harmless. And it is clear that the best toy is a living one. War with the toad. Humanity is ready to …