Off the coast of Honduras sits a small beautiful island called Utila. Less known, and thus less-overrun, than its famous big sister Roatan, Utila sits in the middle of the largest coral reef system outside the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Accordingly, the snorkeling and scuba diving in Utila is second-to-one and far, far cheaper … More That time I ate a barracuda and got ciguatera poisoning
Source: A Scientist’s Personal Eulogy for Oliver Sacks
The same week that Tim Hunt made his fantastically sexist remarks about the presence of women in research laboratories, I happen to be in the midlands of England teaching a course on forensic DNA analysis at the University of Lincoln. Because I got my PhD studying the cyclins and CDKs, I had long admired Dr.…
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Welcome to The Human Evolution Blog, a site maintained by Professor Nathan Lents, of John Jay College at The City University of New York (CUNY). Here you will find regular posts by Professor Lents and invited guest contributors, including outstanding student work, discussing recent findings in the study of the evolutionary origins of Homo sapiens sapiens. … More Welcome
