Two thought-provoking ideas
Taking a breather after student orientations today, I ran across these articles on Wired Science and thought they might be worth your consideration:
- Do gooders are unpopular team members
- Definitely an example of one of those studies that seeks to prove what is already commonly known, but still a “huh, isn’t that neat” kind of short read.
- Is homosexuality an evolutionary step towards the superorganism?
- While making the connection from insects to humans might be a bit of a stretch, it is interesting to wonder whether or not people who do not want to – or can not physically – have kids are perhaps a product of mother nature at work on a species-wide level? I mean, maybe. How you’d prove it, though…