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Two Columns: Ethics and Bosses
Can one achieve ethical impeccability?
Two More Columns About Us and Other Animals
Reflections of our consciousness. Carl Jung compared consciousness to an area illuminated by the light of a desk lamp.
Five Environments of Our Life
The development of life in the physical environment gave rise to the biological environment.
Clusters, Clades, and the Chimera of Objectivity
Entering any science involves both mastering its accepted methods and developing a characteristic way of seeing things. What is so surprising about the connection between technical procedures and worldview? Here I will discuss some of the simplest procedures for processing biological data and, at the same time, the conceptual framework …
Two Columns: Clerical Expansion and “Evolutionary” Games
I don't understand… I don't understand how the separation of church and state can be reconciled with the fact that the holidays of one denomination are recognized as state holidays.
These Two Columns Are United by the Fact That Both Provoked Public Outrage
Did mother wash the window frame? Under the new law SB 777, signed by the California governor, children in public and private schools are prohibited from being informed that a woman and a man are necessary for the birth of a child. Was there a hacker? The problem of providing …
Columns About Dinosaurs and Neanderthals
Dinosaurs and modernity.
A Story About Gullibility, Skepticism, and Three Associate Professors
Once, after the end of a working day at a university, two associate professors visited an associate professor of biology.
Two Misanthropic Columns
Is our song sung?
Two "psychological" columns and something else about comparing incompatible viewpoints
On the comparison of worldviews. Simplifying, one can say that our behavior is regulated by a feedback loop: model of reality – behavior – reaction to the response of reality – adjustment of the original model. If the original model is absolutely rigid, its filters let through only confirming its …
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 incorrectly more often than correctly. The reasons for this vary, and we will try to discuss ...
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 those days is already retiring... Yes, we should! The consequences of Lyseynkovshina pro…
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 role of partial recombinants. Among other things, it is available here: https://dspace.univer.kharkov.ua/handle/123456789/756] D....
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
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 many alleles). Shishkin’s epigenetic theory as a solution to the problems.