Biodiversidad y evolución

The Smart Neanderthal casts a new light on the Neanderthals and the "Cognitive Revolution". Finlayson argues that there was no revolution and, instead, modern behavior arose gradually and independently among different populations of Modern Humans and Neanderthals, raising questions about who we really are.

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...

La física, y en general la ciencia, comenzó una nueva etapa –sobre cuyos cimientos se construiría el mundo moderno– con la publicación en 1687 de Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, el libro inmortal de Isaac Newton Pero, al contrario de lo que muchos creen, la física newtoniana no nació completa, acabada: fue necesario el trabajo de muchos otros científicos para que alcanzase el grado de perfección por el que es conocida y admirada. Y en esa labor pocos pueden competir con el matemático, físico y astrónomo francés, Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827), uno de los...

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