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Karl Popper Although it is fashionable to assert that Karl Popper’s theories about the evolution of science are outdated, his definitio...

Map of the Cosmic Background Radiation In 1927, the Belgian priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître discovered Hubble’s law. Yeah that...

A little over thirty years ago, during the eighties, some of the fundamental concepts of evolution seemed to be quite clear. Let us loo...

The German biologist August Weismann (1834-1914) was one of the most influential biologists of the late nineteenth century. His most impo...

Fertilization of the egg by the sperm In the previous post we saw that at the beginning of the 19th century the theory of epigenesis se...

The history of the evolution of scientific theories about embryonic life (the origin of living beings) is very curious. I will try to sum...

In a comment to the Spanish version of a previous article in this blog , JI Gs wrote this: All societies have an explicit social order, ...