Thursday, December 24, 2009

11. Control of Nature and Invasive Species: The Case of the Asian Carp

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From the sidelines, the story of the Asian carp has moved to the forefront. [i] On Monday, the Associated Press reported [ii] that ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

10. The Sophisticated Life of Plants

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The last post was dedicated to how plants can tell apart their family members and act differentially towards them. Today's post ...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

9. Some Plants Recognize Family Members

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By Jeremy Hance People like to say 'blood is thicker than water'. But plants may actually treat ther siblings better than many o...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

8. On the Social Life of Animals

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By Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff Animals are "in." This might well be called the decade of the animal. Research on animal behavio...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

7. Thinking Outside the Box: Potentials and Limits of Human Mind

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What we know from the emergence of life on Earth, evolution of species, and the role of biodiversity in sustainability and enrichment of l...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

6. Biodiversity

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As I noted in the last two posts, evolutionary biology shows us that species evolve in non-deterministic, non-hierarchical way and the Gai...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

5. The Gaia Hypothesis

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Darwin's perspective on the origin of species is useful to us because it is non-deterministic, non-teleological, and ecocenteric. In D...
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