PHE guest investigator David Thaler summarizes “Ways in which contamination might be distinguished from authentic human eDNA” in a useful draft memo. Meeting this challenge matters greatly for using human…
…food. Earth cannot sustain humans if it sustains humans alone. The direction, inevitably, is landless agriculture. Yields per hectare measure the productivity of land and the efficiency of land use….
…covering about 100,000 animal species. The paper argues that humans are far from special: humanity’s tiny mt DNA differences are “average” in the animal kingdom. Moreover, as with humans, over…
Human additions of sound and light continue to interest us as aspects of global change, as we wrote in JH Ausubel. Broadening the scope of global change to include illumination…
Our vision is harnessing technology to lighten the human footprint, spare land for nature, and restore the oceans. Our mission is developing and communicating knowledge about the physical and living…
Mark Stoeckle and David Thaler’s (former RU colleague, now at University of Basel) paper on what DNA barcodes reveal about human evolution and vice versa, entitled “Bridging two scholarly islands…
…of aquaculture. Another form might be called fish ranching. An analogy of fish ranching might be grazing pigs. Running wild, about 10 hogs can share a hectare. Running wild, today’s…
…scientist Jesse Ausubel, a Human Progress Board Member and Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University in New York City. Watch the full video here. …
Insiders can be mistaken, in science and in other fields. At the beginning of the Human Genome Project, “the great majority of scientists dismissed the original proposal with hostility or…