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Sciences 20.04.2021
Some historical facts about IQ testing
How did we arrive at IQ testing? What are we really testing and for who?
Are the poor dumb and the rich smart, as seems to attest their social position?
TEXT BY Leon Kamin
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Sciences 08.07.2019
Life's coming into being
An introduction to Oparin's 'The origins of life'
How did life come about? Does something come out of nothing, spontaneously? The 'primordial soup' and heterotrophic theory.
TEXT BY Sergius Morgulis
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Sciences 08.07.2019
The niche construction perspective
A critical appraisal
Is Niche Construction an advancement of evolutionary theory and can it lead it to new paradigms for discovery? Is it something new or simply wrong?
TEXT BY Thomas C. Scott-Phillips, Kevin N. Laland, David M. Shuker, Thomas E. Dickins and Stuart A. West