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Darwin battles his intellectual adversaries in breakdance and through Baba’s rhymes.

Keywords: Cultural Evolution, Extinction, Fitness, Genetic Drift, God of the Gaps, Heredity, Intelligent Design, Kinship, Memes, Natural Selection, Tree of Life.

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Artificial Selection

The tree of life connects all living things, and humans help to shape the branches through selective breeding and through culture.

8 Comments.

Keywords: Artificial Selection, Co-evolution, Cultural Evolution, Domestication, Heredity, Lamarkism, Methodical Selection, Thomas Malthus, Tree of Life, Unconscious Selection, Unity of Common Descent.

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Creationist Cousins

Baba debates his religious cousins and his relativist sister around the family dinner table.

4 Comments.

Keywords: Common Ancestors, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Kinship, Parental Investment Theory, Philosophical Naturalism, Primate Evolution, Scientific Method, Sexual Dimorphism, Social Constructivism, Sociobiology, Statistics, Tree of Life, Unity of Common Descent.

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Darwin’s Acid

What does Darwin’s theory say about morality and the meaning of life? A cosmic vision of evolution and its legacy.

5 Comments.

Keywords: Adaptation, Common Ancestors, Cultural Evolution, Ecosystem, Natural Selection, Parental Investment Theory, Reproductive Strategies, Sexual Selection.

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Hypnotize

Showing off is a great way to attract mates; peacocks do it with feathers, while humans do it with clever words, fashion, and bling.

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Keywords: Costly Signaling, Fitness Display, Handicap Principle, Mating Dance, Origins of Language, Sexual Selection.

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I’m A African

Afro-centricity belongs to the human species, not to any particular race. We are all African under the skin, even white boys like Baba.

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Keywords: Adaptive Radiation, Australopithecus, Common Ancestors, DNA, Fossil Record, God of the Gaps, Homo Erectus, Kinship, Migration, Mitochondria, Mutation, Out of Africa, Unity of Common Descent.

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Worst Comes to Worst

Darwin’s version of “love thy neighbour” extends to the whole world, so can’t we all just get along?

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Keywords: Altruism, Altruistic Punishment, Biogeography, Cooperation, Descent of Man, Galapagos, Kinship, Multi-level Selection, Reciprocal Altruism.

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DNA

From the perspective of evolution, we are here to serve our genes, not vice versa. Where does all this diversity come from? From DNA.

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Keywords: Adaptation, Common Ancestors, DNA Replication, Double Helix, Fitness, Heritability, Mutation, Protein Synthesis.

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Survival of the Fittest

Violent crime and teenage pregnancy can also be understood as products of evolution, a new view of gangsta rap.

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Keywords: Adaptation, Evolutionary Psychology, Future Discounting, Life Expectancy, Life History Theory, Reproductive Strategies, Status Competition, Time Horizons, Ultimate Cause.

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Performance, Feedback, Revision

A rapper writing lyrics is a lot like the process of evolution, which tries out multiple drafts, scratching out and revising to find out what works.

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Keywords: Archaeology, Australopithecus, Descent of Man, Descent with Modification, Evo Devo, Genetic Code, Homo Erectus, Mutation, Natural Selection, Origins of Language, Phenotype, Primatology.

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