Recent content by abrown9

The key to running fast is - more running! Cross Country / Track is a unique sport in the sense that the success you get out of it is entirely dependent on the work you put in. If your son puts in consistent, hard work for four years (and not JUST in season), he can go places with the sport...

A couple things: 1) The initial jump from SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) to HIV is much more likely to be the result of someone getting infected while preparing bush meat than getting down-and-dirty with a monkey. Blood-blood transmission is way more likely to occur and monkeys were a...

The fact that it is from Wikipedia doesn't automatically make it unreliable. The key is know how to determine whether or not articles are accurate. If they don't have citations, don't trust them, and if they have citations, visit them! I find Wiki is a great starting point that usually...

Barb/LK, have you guys read "Survival of the Sickest" by Sharon Moalem? I remember reading it in early undergrad and being stunned by the fact that I had never even considered why deleterious mutations (that affect prior to reproductive age) even hung around in our populations. One thing I...

I know this is supposed to be a point about evolution, but I wouldn't mind trying to derail just one thread from the totally pointless debate of evolution vs. creation. A big thing physicians need to do is STOP inappropriately prescribing antibiotics. A big thing the public needs to do is a)...

How on earth does the Higgs-Boson particle trouble evolutionary science?

It's strange that this argument is now being used in favour of Jesus being a real person while I've often seen many examples of "we didn't see it evolve so it's not proof". EDIT: Not that I don't think it's a valid argument. Jesus, from what we can tell, was likely a real individual and George...

I know, I was trying to argue to his logic. From what I've seen, Async. considers new data only as an increase in genome size.

Asyncriticus: How about: Gene duplication and then the mutation of that duplicated gene. How does that not introduce new information into a genome?

Just because something could be advantageous to a species doesn't mean that it automatically will happen. A mutation has to happen (in this case many mutations would have to happen). Humans are so far diverged from species that camouflage/mimic that we would have to change a huge amount...

That's a common misconception. There is no such thing as higher evolved or less evolved. Evolution has pushed each species to the point that they are the most fit for their niche/environment. Both man and the whale are mammals, but the whale is obviously way more fit for its environment...

There is an excellent essay in Gould's "Ever Since Darwin" about the evolution of mimicry.

1) Be more confident. I don't think it would change much about my situation now, but it would have made highschool a lot more enjoyable. 2) Run more miles! Your aerobic base can never be too large! (Distance runner thing...)

The dinosaurs drank it, resulting in universal hyponatremia leading to massive extinction. Case closed. :chin

I would like to remind you about the difference between the word "theory" from a scientific perspective, and the word "theory" from a layman's perspective. Facts and proofs only exist in mathematics. In the physical sciences, the word theory is used to describe a hypothesis that has been...