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In 1973 the eminent evolutionary geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote an essay  entitled “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.” Presumably, that would include molecular biology, and as Dobzhanksy was writing, the field of …

Listen now (58 min) | The IDW, anti-vaccination and social media as a detriment

Who was the smartest human of the 20th century? Though intellectual celebrity probably dictates that the majority would answer Albert Einstein, another candidate is the mathematician John von Neumann. Today on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to scien…

Listen now (56 min) | A century long relationship across the Pacific

Your time is finite. Your phone and the internet stand ready to help you squander it. Here are my latest picks for spending it well instead. Feel free to add more in the comments. Books, what else? The idea that there was civilization before Greece and Rome seems self-evident to us today. But it wasn’t…

In this episode of Unsupervised Learning Stuart Ritchie joins Razib., Ritchie is the author of Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth and Intelligence: All that Matters. Ritchie is also a lecturer at King…

From reconquest to conquest

Listen now | Molecular biology beyond Darwin

Unpacking prehistoric Spanish and Portuguese genetics