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Zoology

The Social Cetaceans

Kieran Fox

Though separated from humans by tens of millions of years of independent evolution, whales and dolphins are recognizably like us, if only in ways that we can sense but cannot quite measure.

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Genetics

From Genes to Genomes

James Shapiro

In his review of Genome Chaos: Rethinking Genetics, Evolution, and Molecular Medicine by Henry Heng, James Shapiro charts the history of the ideas Heng furnishes, and applauds his novel approach.

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Physics

Evolution in Revolution

Denis Noble

With The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life, Paul Davies joins the distinguished company of physicists who have contributed to fundamental biology.

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Anthropology

Rethinking Justice

Mark Goodale

What drives humans to commit inhuman acts? Alexander Laban Hinton looks for answers in Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer and The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia.

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Genetics

Madness in Numbers

Christine von Oertzen

Theodore Porter’s book Genetics in the Madhouse describes the somewhat surprising origins of the study of human heredity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century lunatic asylums.

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Philosophy

+ Italian version

Beyond Dignity

Sophia Catalano

Pico della Mirandola is today wrongly considered “a prophet of human dignity”—a title that Brian Copenhaver believes was thrust upon the Renaissance philosopher through the lens of subsequent ideas.

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Biology

The Origin of Novel Genes

Richard Buggs

A series of studies finds that novel genes do not accumulate with Darwinian gradualism in the phylogeny, but can be gained through radical overhauls. How this might be accomplished is a mystery.

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Biology

The Internal Language of Proteins

Zachary Ardern

Could proteins share a common language across the major branches of life? A new paper investigates the arrangements of protein domains, considering them as a kind of ordered grammar.

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Physics

+ French version

Sights Unseen

Renaud Bachelot

Can we make mice see the invisible? Renaud Bachelot reviews new developments in the emergent field of nano-optics and nanophotonics—particularly, results which explore making infrared visible to mice.

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