Ernst Haeckel saw biological beauty as self-sufficient law. Teilhard de Chardin saw evolution as God’s grammar. Their implicit debate, run through drawings and theology, has never been fully adjudicated.
Between 2020 and 2025, AI architectures proliferated with Cambrian extravagance. Paleontological history suggests this is the pattern preceding mass extinction and consolidation. Which body plans will survive?
E.O. Wilson said altruism is biology all the way down. The Vatican’s own scientists disagreed — and the exchange that followed reveals where evolutionary biology and Catholic theology genuinely collide.
David Burnie | Time Life Education | 192 pages | 1999 Evolution is one of…
In 1998, two competing teams set out to measure how fast the universe was slowing down. They found it was accelerating — into an abyss no equation had prepared them for.
Descartes called animals flesh-machines. Pavlov’s conditioned reflex experiments — and Cold Spring Harbor’s neuroscience legacy — proved otherwise. Here’s why it matters.