Environment Matters For Us Humans
Life, including the human, is conditional. Our lives have requirements and occur in a biological context. We have a specific, objective nature. We need species-appropriate …
Biology
Modern Medicine Needs Logic
Argument from authority and authoritarian methods are tried and failed — over and over again throughout history. As have Platonic methods. What we need are …
Biology Books
If you are interested, here are most of the books I’ve read/listened to on biology and related topics. They are important, because only in biology …
Biology: It’s Not Just Competition
“It’s not that symbiosis occasionally occurs in nature; it’s that everywhere, at every level of complexity, symbiosis makes what we call nature possible.” — Moises …
The Ideal Gas Law (van der Waals Correction) and Disease Spread
In “The scaling of contact rates with population density for the infectious disease models” (Mathematical Biosciences, Volume 244, Issue 2, August 2013, Pages 125-134), Hoa …
Population Density and Disease
In “Infectious Diseases and Human Population History: Throughout history the establishment of disease has been a side effect of the growth of civilization” (BioScience Vol. …
Agriculture and Disease
In “The origin of human pathogens: evaluating the role of agriculture and domestic animals in the evolution of human disease,” Dr. Jessica Pearce-Duvet (Biology Department, …
History of Humans in the Americas
In “The First Americans May Have Arrived 130,000 Years Ago” (Discovermagazine.com, April 26, 2017), Gemma Tarlach writes: Is the conventional chronology of human migration little more than …