Håkan Lindgren, frilansskribent i SvD 13 okt 2013: "de Waal har studerat apors sociala liv sedan 1970-talet och är nu en av världens ledande auktoriteter på ämnet. Bonobon väckte tidigt hans intresse: ”Jag uppskattar bonoboer just för att allt det som skiljer dem från schimpanserna vidgar vår syn på människans evolution. De visar att vår härkomst inte enbart utmärks av manlig överhöghet och främlingsfientlighet utan också av sökande efter samförstånd och lyhördhet för andra.” Det är inte svårt att förstå vart han vill komma: ”Tänk om vi inte härstammar från en argsint schimpanslik förfader utan från en vänlig, empatisk, bonobolik människoapa?”" Snabbast att ta till sig idén om den genetiskt medfödda samarbetsviljan har de stora internetföretagen varit. Att dela med sig av skvaller och information ligger djupt i människans natur, förklarar de för oss, så att vi ska känna att det är naturligt att delandet administreras av kaliforniska superföretag. Ingen av de Waals apflockar delar med sig på så sätt att upphovsmannen blir utan." "Det budskap man tar med sig när man har slagit igen den är att naturen och evolutionen garanterar att vi förblir moraliska varelser."
Daina Ramey Berry Feb 4, 2024, Forbes : The transatlantic slave trade is a painful part of world history. Yet new research and DNA evidence offer novel ways to teach difficult history to school-aged students.
Simply adding energy such as heat or light to the more basic organic molecules in the "soup" does not generate RNA. Instead, it generates tar.RNA needs to be coaxed into shape by "templating" atoms at the crystalline surfaces of minerals. The minerals most effective at templating RNA would have dissolved in the oceans of the early Earth, but would have been more abundant on Mars, according to Prof Benner.
Together with 37 organisations from across Europe, CEO launched the #StopGlyphosate European Citizens Initiative (ECI) this morning. We're jointly trying to collect signatures from at least one million EU citizens before the summer - an ambitious but urgent goal we are hoping to reach as the European Commission and national governments will likely take their final decision on glyphosate then. The petition is hosted by WeMove.eu.
"Bilden av naturen som originalet och människans värld som en kopia finner inte något riktigt stöd i forskningen, inte i den kritiskt granskande forskningen." Bloggaren Eddy i ett inlägg kring Frans de Waals med fleras idéer om godhet
Reuters August 1, 2016 GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet's life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics.
Dave Goulson
A recent landmark study that investigated alarming loss of insects is leaving scientists dumbfounded, deeply troubled, potentially the biggest-ever existential threat, risking ecosystem collapse too soon for comfort. In contrast to global warming, this may be much more imminently dangerous across-the-board to terrestrial life. An enormous loss of insect population, almost decimation in some parts of the world, threatens the life-giving structure of the ecosystem. This is a deadly serious problem!
The big question that neither Big Food or Big Vax want to see the public ask is whether vaccinations are driving pandemics, not just because of crowding but because of the uniform immunity created by the animal bio-engineering behind CAFOs.
By Hannah Rundle, Scientific American October 12, 2019
People who live off the land depend on keeping ecosystems intact, and scientists are tapping into their unique expertise
"Ukraine is also one of the 10 pilot countries in the World Bank's new Benchmarking the Business of Agriculture (BBA) project," Mittal told IPS, referring to a brand new initiative, still in the development stage, which is connected to the Bank's controversial Doing Business rankings. But the OI [Oakland Institute] report's co-author Frédéric Mousseau says initiatives like the BBA and others exist primarily to pry open Ukraine's doors, hitherto sealed by its socialist traditions, to foreign capital.
Guardian-artikel från nov 2014 om undersökningsprojektet Focus GMO
Thousands of rats will be fed Monsanto maize diets in a $23m, three-year ‘Factor GMO’ study into long-term health effects of GM food and associated pesticides
The organisers of the Factor GMO [genetically modified organism] study, announced in London on Tuesday and due to start fully next year, say it will investigate the long-term health effects of a diet of a GM maize developed by US seed and chemical company Monsanto.
“It will answer the question: is this GM food, and associated pesticide, safe for human health?” said Elena Sharoykina, a campaigner and co-founder of the Russian national association for genetic safety (Nags), the co-ordinator of the experiment.
Edward O. Wilson and sociobiology
"He rejected claims for a genetic basis of hierarchy and downplayed IQ, a fetish of the right, as ‘only one subset of … intelligence’. In an interview with the New York Times, he explained, ‘I see maybe 10 percent of human behaviour as genetic and 90 percent environmental’. "
"Wilson wrote copiously and passionately on the threat of extinction caused by the destruction of ecosystems, including a stint editing the journal BioDiversity in 1988. Against ‘spurious’ claims that humanity was merely acting as another ‘Darwinian agent’ by causing species’ extinction, he noted that the ‘rate of extinction is now about 400 times that recorded through recent geological time and is accelerating rapidly’."
3.11.2017, Landsbygdens Folk:Kritiker ifrågasätter studie
om dramatisk insektdöd
En forskningsrapport om dramatisk insektdöd i Tyskland har förorsakat panikstämning. Naturskyddsorganisationerna ställde genast jordbruket vid skampålen och pressen hakade på. Men rapporten är behäftad med brister som minskar trovärdigheten.