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Risk Tolerant/Risk Immune

2016.01.10 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

When things go well, stick to the traditional, don’t try new things. When you’re desperate, try new things. That’s the way biology and business look at it.

So what happens when you have enough, but your competitors are improving? It’s never happened before, and so we need a new way to look at it.

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Posted in: Biology, Politics Tagged: Liberal and Conservative, Small Evolution

Child’s Games, Child’s Work: Hide and Seek

2016.01.08 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments

Child’s play is child’s work, and Hide & Seek is not the innocent game it seems. Like so much of life, it is really a game of survival, of life and death.

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Posted in: Biology, Education Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Small Evolution, Wisdom

Wasp Evolution & Animal Urbanization

2016.01.04 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

The evidence of wasp evolution around my home is an example of animal urbanization, i.e., how living things adapt to encroaching humanity.

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Posted in: Biology Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Small Evolution

The Black Death, Perfume, and Tobacco Addiction

2015.12.21 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Smoking skull.

Could tobacco addiction and the perfume industry be a legacy from the Black Death of the 14th century?

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Posted in: Biology, Medicine Tagged: Small Evolution

Why did God Create the Fossil Record? or, Mommy, Where Did You Put My Tail & Gills?

2015.12.06 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

In the previous post, we continued with the argument that many religious adherents assert, that God created the universe and all life, with only some minor changes coming from evolution thereafter.  Given those premises we then asked, Why did He leave clues to suggest something else is going on? Let me offer a solution for … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Biology, Knowledge Tagged: Small Evolution
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