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12 posts tagged "evolution"

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‘Primal’ and the language of evolution

JP Spoonmore | Thursday, September 22, 2022

Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal” is a masterpiece like no other. Through blood and prehistoric rage, the silence of a show without dialogue is drowned under the terrifying screams of beasts fighting their very extinction. But this is more than just a show about a caveman and a T-rex fighting duo. Sprayed across this show’s violent tapestry

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The old shell game

Raymond Ramirez | Friday, February 22, 2019

Let me get right to the point: turtles are awesome. The basic turtle body plan is remarkable, most notably for the shell that surrounds and protects the turtle’s body. The shell consists of an upper section, the carapace, which ranges from relatively flat to domed, and a bottom half, the plastron. Depending on the species,

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Creationists and crayfish

Raymond Ramirez | Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The First Amendment to the Constitution opens with a dual pledge of religious liberty: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”  The first part of this provision has come to be known as the Establishment Clause. While the “free exercise” of religion promised in the rest

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Discovering meaning in science

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 6, 2017

When one thinks of “theoretical biophysics,” the public debate between the notions of creationism and evolutionary biology does not immediately come to mind. However, this was the finishing idea of Dr. William Bialek, a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, during his lecture last Tuesday night. Dr. Bialek is a theoretical biophysicist at Princeton University, and

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Out of the wild

Matthew Williams | Thursday, February 2, 2017

The process of domestication is one of the coolest things our ancestors figured out how to do. Starting around 13,000 years ago, they began selectively breeding crops for traits that were beneficial to humans. Around 2,000 years later, they figured out how to do the same thing with animals, directing the evolution of a species

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A note on human evolution: how culture shapes us

Letter to the Editor | Friday, December 2, 2016

Humans are culturally crafted creatures. Our 6 million years of unique evolutionary history has left us like soft balls of clay. We come into the world skilless but eager and equipped to learn. Where other species have genes that teach them what to do and govern their possible actions, we arrive with much more freedom, trusting

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Fr. John Zahm, eclectic Notre Dame administrator, died 95 years ago today

Alexandra Muck | Thursday, November 10, 2016

“I regard Father Zahm as the greatest mind produced by the University in its long career, and perhaps the greatest man in all respects developed within the Congregation of the Holy Cross since its foundation,” former University president Fr. John W. Cavanaugh wrote in The Catholic World in 1922. Fr. John Zahm, who died 95 years

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Radio: The new frontier?

Kitty Baker | Monday, August 31, 2015

One of the best episodes of the TV series Frasier is “Ham Radio.” Frasier attempts to direct an old radio drama, “Nightmare Inn,” to celebrate KACL’s (the radio station at which he works) 50th anniversary. The episode ends, of course, in complete disaster, as accidents and colliding personalities leave the drama unfinished. This episode never

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Lecture analyzes connection between biology and theology

Kathryn Marshall | Thursday, October 30, 2014

Notre Dame theology professor Celia Deane-Drummond examined the connection between theology and biology Thursday evening in her lecture “Tracing Common Ground in Biology and Theology: Caritas and the Drama of Kinship” as part of Saint Mary’s College theology lecture series, hosted by the Center for Spirituality. Deane-Drummond, who holds doctoral degrees in both plant physiology and theology, strove

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Notre Dame honors Brown cell biologist with Laetare Medal

Jack Rooney | Friday, May 16, 2014

Dr. Kenneth Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University, will join the prestigious lineage of Laetare Medal winners at Notre Dame’s 169th Commencement ceremony Sunday.  Miller, who works as a cell biologist with a research focus on “the structure and function of biological membranes and membrane proteins,” said he was humbled to receive the

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