What made our ancestors put the words together?

What did our ancestors eat?

Over the millennia various hominoids and hominids have subsisted on very different dietaries, depending on climate, hunting proficiency, food-processing technology, and available foods. The Australopithecines were not browsers and fruit-eaters with very high intakes of vitamin C; rather they were scavengers of kills made by other animals. The hominids who followed did include some cold-climate ...

Paleolithic nutrition : what did our ancestors eat ?

Are viruses our oldest ancestors?

Humans have a skewed view of viruses because we only notice them if they cause disease. In reality, however, viruses are much more than pathogens. HIV and influenza cause frightening health threats, but 1019 HIV particles worldwide are basically nothing compared to 1033 total number of viruses on our planet. Viruses are present in every species and every ecological niche, and affect every organ...

Renal hypoplasia and dysplasia: starting to put the puzzle together.

T he human metanephros is the direct precursor of the mature kidney: It begins to form in the fifth gestational week, when ureteric bud branches from the mesonephric duct; thereafter, renal mesenchyme condenses around the advancing bud and forms nephrons while the bud itself forms the ureter and collecting ducts. Perturbation of these events underlies the spectrum of disorders called congenital...

Words Made Flesh

Executable code existed centuries before the invention of the computer in magic, Kabbalah, musical composition and experimental poetry. These practices are often neglected as a historical pretext of contemporary software culture and electronic arts. Above all, they link computations to a vast speculative imagination that encompasses art, language, technology, philosophy and religion. These spec...