Sarabet Chang Yuye
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Contraception introduces genetic selection for loving parenting
People used to have kids regardless of whether they wanted them; now there is selection for wanting children, which is correlated with being loving parents.Endosymbiosis
Cursed current! It flung me in the path of a jet of hot water exiting an underwater vent. The proteins on the hot-facing side of my cell wall denatured and cracked, and my lipid cell wall loosened for a fraction of a second.Behold the marvel of ATP synthase!
Hey, look at ATP synthase with me for a second. It’s literally a molecular rotary motor with a crank shaft, embedded in a membrane holding a proton reservoir. (In eukaryotes like us, that membrane is the inner mitochondrial membrane; in prokaryotes it’s usually the inner membrane of the cell.The Bonobo and the Atheist (de Waal)
Morality is primatological.Most epigenetically devastating trimester to experience famine
If your mother experienced a famine while you were a third trimester fetus, this messes up your metabolic programming and increases your risk for metabolic diseases – in ways that can cascade down to your own children epigenetically ...