Thursday, August 2, 2007

Check one off the list

Remember that stuff about loving thy neighbor and helping the underserved? Apparently the agnostic and atheists of the medical world are actually more likely to do so. So much for morality without the good book.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Yeah, that makes sense.

Looks like monkeys learn in the same way as humans. Why am I not surprised? It seems, given that apes and monkeys are our closest living relatives, that we should share alot of the same brain functioning. Then again, I'm no primatologist. Then again, we've all had jobs that we figured a chimpanzee might be better suited for.

Thank you Wyoming!

Some enterprising young scientists from the University of Chicago have found a fossil that fills a gap in the body of knowledge surrounding the development of limbs. Read it here. What I really like about the find is that, being another coelacanth fossil, you can compare it to the fossils previously discovered and illustrate the significance of it to the lay person. There is nothing better than an easily understood physical example to get the public to an comprehensive understanding of evolution. Yay for transitional forms.