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Superficially persuasive as this view is, it ignores certain basic realities. It assumes, for instance, that organisms are little more than agglomerations of special-purpose mechanisms, each of which can be tracked independently of the "packages" of which they form part. We speak of the "evolution of upright walking" or...
This being the case, all we can do is hope that things stay pretty much the way they are--which is both good and bad. The bad news is that we will forever remain the willful, capricious, appalling creatures that we have been ever since our species emerged during the...
HORGAN: I hope you're right, Paul. I became a science writer because I believe science is humanity's most meaningful creation. We are here to figure out why we are here. The thought that this grand adventure of discovery might end haunts me. What would it be like to...
The problem is that after 350 million years of evolution, your kitchen-variety cockroach is exquisitely designed for survival. A single female German cockroach (the most prolific of the seven major pest species) generates 35,000 descendants a year on a diet of just about anything: table scraps, toothpaste, glue...
In this, the third installment of TIME's 100 questions for the 21st century, we focus on the great unsolved riddles of space and time and human consciousness. Our journey is necessarily brief--we don't have enough fuel to travel more than 25 years or so into the future...