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March 24, 2013

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10:58 AM | Is the Meaning of Your Life to Make Babies?
What can — and cannot — be learned from evolution From an evolutionary gene’s-eye perspective, the genes are immortal, and our role, the meaning of life, is to perpetuate the genes. In a few centuries, all traces of our existence as human individuals — memories of us, all our accomplishments –will likely be gone and [...]
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General Science

February 01, 2013

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12:23 PM | Amoxicillin–Humdrum? Or Miraculous?
Busy primary care doctors, especially those who see children, prescribe it ten times a day, sometimes more. For over thirty years it’s been our old steady friend, our go-to medication for bacterial ear infections, pneumonia, strep throat, and sinusitis. Evidence-based literature has its back.  It’s the “pink medicine,” the yummy “bubble gum medicine,” to which [...]
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General Science

January 25, 2013

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12:31 PM | Patients and Evolutionary History
Evolution has revolutionized our modern scientific understanding of natural history and how our bodies came to be. Yet evolutionary insights regarding health and disease are not typically emphasized with patients. Medical education focuses on proximate causes of disease — infection, trauma, cellular regulation, etc. — as opposed to evolutionary understandings of how our traits and [...]
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