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A few sites I've stumbled across recently....
At what point did the bear get involved?
Epigenetics is fashionable again. It has probably fair to say it has been held back by an over reliance on protein-coding sequences as the dominant vehicle for heritability. All that 'junk' DNA in the genome probably has a lot of surprises hiding in it.
What I feel I was until today, when stanj alerted me to Eugene McCarthy's hypothesis about human origins, as written up, rather well, by the Daily Mail.
There may be a lesson or two about science and a joke or two about our current place in the cosmos, such as kim's "The pig and the chimpanzee had a 'secret session'." All aspects welcome, with thanks.