“Saadanius is a genus of fossil primate dating to the Oligocene that is closely related to the common ancestor of the Old World monkeys and apes, collectively known as catarrhines. It is represented by a single species, Saadanius hijazensis, which is known only from a single partial skull tentatively dated between 29 and 28 mya [...]
[Figure: Three views of the fit between the fetal head and the birth canal in chimpanzees, Australopithecus afarensis, and modern humans. The top view shows the orientation of the fetal head at the entrance (inlet) to the birth canal; the middle view is at midcanal; the bottem view is at the exit (outlet). Fetal head [...]
First some background info from Wikipedia: Prahlad Jani, a Jain holy man, spent ten days under strict observation by physicians in Ahmedabad, India, in 2003. The study was led by Dr Sudhir Shah, the same doctor who led the study of Hira Ratan Manek. Reportedly, during the observation, he was given only 100 millilitres of [...]
Christian conservatives in Texas, provoked by texts that differ from their unfortunate political and mistaken religious views, have made numerous changes in children’s school textbooks without consulting a single historian. The Texas school board doesn’t seem to value fact much in children’s education. They much prefer to subject children to harmful and nonsensical ideologies. Here’s [...]
While I talk about New Zealand in this post my views are not specific to NZ! I’m very interested in debate regarding these issues occurring and also in what form the debate takes. As we know; Homo sapiens are a species like any other, regardless of our complexity, and our behaviour is produced through our [...]
This post is part of the ‘Learn Biology’ series People tend to be curious about the world around them and interested in explaining how and why things happen. The scientific method helps us in accurately understanding the world around us. Descriptive Science Descriptive science is about describing natural structures and processes through careful observation and [...]
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy: “Islam and Science Have Parted Ways” Middle East Quarterly Winter 2010, pp. 69-74 Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (b. 1950) is one of South Asia’s leading nuclear physicists and perhaps Pakistan’s preeminent intellectual. Bearer of a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , he is chairman of the department of physics at Quaid-e-Azam [...]
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