Tag Archives: genetics
Humans and Neanderthals Might Have Interbred
Found : Humans and Neanderthals Might Have Interbred As modern humans spread across Europe tens of thousands of years ago, they may have interbred with Neanderthals, creating hybrids, according to a new study of ancient human bones from Romania. Anthropologists … Continue reading
Astrobiology: The Living Universe
Found : Astrobiology: The Living Universe A theory called panspermia states that the Earth was "seeded" with life when celestial objects collided with the Earth. The term panspermia is Greek for ‘seeds everywhere’. While the idea of life on Earth … Continue reading
Intelligent Design and Irreducible Complexity
Found : Intelligent Design and Irreducible Complexity Intelligent design is a science perspective which infers that natural laws and chance alone are not adequate to explain all natural phenomena. Intelligent design is closely synonymous to creation science. It may only … Continue reading
Rapid acceleration in human evolution described | Health | Reuters
Found : Rapid acceleration in human evolution described | Health | Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said … Continue reading
Okay, but exactly `who' would escape the Tyranny of the Replicators?
Found : Okay, but exactly `who’ would escape the Tyranny of the Replicators? At the end of the day who would escape the tyranny of the replicators? To escape the tyranny of memes we should surely have to lose the … Continue reading
How to identify love or lust based on facial characteristics
Found : How to identify love or lust based on facial characteristics Members of the opposite sex can spot whether someone is after a one-night stand or something more permanent just by looking at their face, scientists said on Wednesday. … Continue reading
"garbage theory" of the origin of life
Found : "garbage theory" of the origin of life Possibly the least appealing idea about how life began on Earth. Thomas Gold of Cornell University suggested1 that biological contaminants accidentally left behind by interstellar survey parties could introduce life to … Continue reading
Are We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia
Found : Are We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia Somewhat lost in the current panspermia revival is the intriguing flip-side of the "ubiquitous life" idea: If life could have come here from somewhere, why couldn't an Earth rock … Continue reading
The Baby Maker
“It was only after extensive investigation, multiple malpractice lawsuits, and a criminal trial that his patients – and the nation – learned the truth. The babymaker was actually a fraud who had perpetrated a cruel hoax… by inseminating other patients … Continue reading
Robots, Goblins and Alien Amoeba: Fermis Paradox

Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #100, expanded and revised with original illustrations. Was the Earth colonized by extraterrestrial scientists? Continue reading