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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On biologists

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The Hindu

The animal kingdom is full of cheats, and it could be a driving force in evolution

"Even though it might seem brazen and despicable to our human social sensibilities, cheating thrives in the biological world."

LiveScience

David Attenborough and Professor Brian Cox named as most curious thinkers of all time

The top signs of a curious thinker include asking lots of questions and studying in your spare time - with three in ten Brits wanting to be more curious in general

Daily Mirror

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Is male reproduction in humans more egalitarian by mammalian standards?

A spectacularly detailed study about human uniqueness in just one trait has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, jointly by 105 authors from 70 institutions in 15 countries. They focused on reproductive success, defined as the number of surviving offspring, and on the differences between…

The Hindu

Past senses: English Heritage signs point out historic sites’ sounds and smells

Playful takes on cautionary Ministry of Works signs encourage visitors to have a sensory experience

The Guardian - UK

No one listened to Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel was disbelieved when he discovered genetics — until his work was rediscovered after he died

Salon

George Eliot’s Middlemarch: egoism, moral stupidity, and the complex web of life

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

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"Unprecedented" Science Expedition Unlocks New Genetic Clues To Help Save Coral Reefs

Scientists from Tara Pacific Expedition's two-year sea voyage studied the microbiome of coral reefs, ultimately mapping more than 2 billion genetic sequences.

Inverse

Gosse gets the ocean home

On May 21, 1853, the first public aquarium was opened as part of the London Zoo. First called the “Fish House” in Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens, it was made possible by English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse.

The Hindu

Evolution explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world.

The Week

Galapagos Islands welcome vermilion flycatcher chicks

An effort to save the tiny bright birds known as Darwin’s flycatchers seems to be bearing fruit. When Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos Islands nearly 200 years ago, he noted that they were teeming with little vermillion flycatchers. By the 2010s, however, the birds’ numbers had fallen so low there…

The Week

Ecuador seals record debt-for-nature swap with Galapagos bond

Ecuador sealed the world's largest "debt-for-nature" swap on record on Tuesday, selling a new "blue bond" that will funnel at least $12 million a year into conservation of the Galapagos Islands, one of the world's most precious ecosystems.

Reuters

Right to Dream’s vision helps children reach potential in football and beyond

Tom Vernon started RTD in Ghana in 1999 and its reach has extended to FC Nordsjælland’s chase for the Danish Superliga

The Guardian - UK

How did a rare US Senate book bearing King Charles’ name land in a used bookshop?

A leather-bound copy of a US Senate rules book, one of 450 printed for the nation’s 91st Congress in 1969, was discovered on sale for a mere $9.39. The name stamped in gilt letters on its front could offer a unique view into King Charles III’s relationship with America. Io…

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Evening Standard

Westminster Abbey: The historic church where British monarchs have been crowned for 1,000 years

Charles III will be the 40th reigning monarch to be crowned in the gothic surrounds of the historic building

Homes & Gardens

Inside Westminster Abbey – everything I learned on my visit to the site of King Charles III's coronation

In almost one week, the eyes of the world will, once again, turn to this historic site – here are the key facts I discovered on my recent tour

The Independent UK

Historic church is site of the crowning of British monarchs for 1,000 years

Charles III will be the 40th reigning monarch to be crowned in the gothic surrounds of Westminster Abbey.

Wales Online

The legendary Welshman who changed the world buried under a fossilised Jurassic tree

He's an unsung Welsh hero, and more should know about him

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The Guardian - UK

Animals review – a carnival of curious fish and fantastic beasts

From a medieval monk mixed with a fish to the call of an extinct Hawaiian bird, this entertaining show revels in nature’s marvels – real or otherwise

The Conversation

What is essentialism? And how does it shape attitudes to transgender people and sexual diversity?

Recent debates around transgender people and sexual diversity have been marked by essentialism, a profoundly conservative mindset with deep links to religious and metaphysical dogmatism. It is a stance through which conservative thinkers seek certainty in a world of change and fluidity.

The Guardian - AU

An earthworm: when you are a child, these are an enormous part of your world

To get earthworms for fishing, people do a thing called ‘worm grunting’

Al Jazeera

Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks

Government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.

Wales Online

This is where some of the greatest Welsh people of all time are buried

The final resting places of some Welsh figures might surprise you

LiveScience

Geneticist Adam Rutherford on how eugenics, 'Darwin's monster', took over the world

Adam Rutherford’s new book takes readers on a journey into genetics's dark past.

The Conversation

Racist and sexist depictions of human evolution still permeate science, education and popular culture today

Systemic racism and sexism have permeated civilization since the rise of agriculture, when people started living in one place for a long time. Early Western scientists, such as Aristotle in ancient Greece, were indoctrinated with the ethnocentric and misogynistic narratives that permeated their society. More than 2,000 years after Aristotle’s…

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