Ancient Autism Genes
We recently published an article in Autism Research reporting that autism genes are extremely ancient compared to other genes in the human genome. Illustration by Alexander Glandien. Courtesy of Spectrum News. […]
Tag Archives: evolution
The Absurdity of “Just So Stories” in Explaining Evolution
And the Camel said ‘Humph!’ again; but no sooner had he said it than he saw his back, that he was so proud of, puffing up and puffing up into […]
Change Is Coming – Lessons from Geology on Extinction Events
I’ve been reading the second edition of Michael Benton’s, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, which tells of what we know of the Permian extinction […]
The Roots of American Anti-Intellectualism
Though most of us in America are pretty familiar with a sense of anti-intellectualism and anti-science that pervades our culture, we’re often only familiar with the more recent iterations of […]
Breaking News: Scientists Are Human After All
It’s true. Contrary to all expectations, scientists are in fact human. Once believed to be a separate species, Homo scientia, we now know that scientists are not just a closely […]
The Theory of Evolution, the French Revolution, & Modern American Society
During the height of the French Revolution, about 3,000 Parisian revolutionaries held an entire country (30,000,000 people) hostage. The economic class from which they primarily derived was the up-and-coming educated […]
Anti-Copernicanism in Modern Day Scientific Culture
“… science is a complex and heterogeneous historical process which contains vague and incoherent anticipations of future ideologies side by side with highly sophisticated theoretical systems and ancient and petrified […]
The Science of Salt Lake City Continued…
My trip in Salt Lake City, Utah, continues this week and I have more photos to share, exploring reptilian, dinosaur, and mammalian evolutions. Following our trip to the Natural History […]
The Science of Salt Lake City
This week my husband and I are in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the upcoming International Meeting of Autism Research (IMFAR). Since we had a little free time this weekend, […]
The Science of Paris
My fiancé and I have been in France since August 30th, enjoying a combination of early honeymoon and a Brain Disorders conference. This post, rather than offering anything innovative and […]
