Tuberculosis Study Could Help Us Understand How Disease Spreads November 21, 2014 The latest Ebola outbreak has elicited a lot of fear—justifiably so. The potential for a pandemic highlights the critical need for epidemiologists to understand... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
The Amazing Disappearing Hominid! September 11, 2014 Vanishing acts have played a role in magic spectacles for centuries. But what might be good entertainment in a theatre is no laughing matter... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Use It or Lose It: Intellectual Exercise Can Save Your Mind August 26, 2014 Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902–2001), one of my intellectual heroes, was a philosopher, educator, writer, and editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica series Great Books of... Blog by Kenneth Samples Read
Neanderthal Population Data Raises Doubt about Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding August 11, 2014 As it turns out, those anthropologists who claim that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred have the same problem as mischievous students who are poor... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
A Key Transitional Form in Human Evolution May Not Have Existed July 17, 2014 “What? You mean to tell me that Sherlock Holmes wasn’t real!?” Some fictional characters are so instantiated in our collective psyche that we often think... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Chimpanzees’ Sleeping Habits Closer to Hominid Behavior Than to Humans’ June 9, 2014 Weary humans aren't the only creatures scouting out the best places to sleep. Primatologists from the US report that wild chimpanzees know how to... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Old DNA Causes New Problems for Human Evolution January 17, 2014 Recently, anthropologists set a world record when they isolated mitochondrial DNA from the 400,000-year-old femur of a Homo heidelbergensis specimen. The sequence of this... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Gentle Disagreement in the Creation-Evolution Debate January 10, 2014 In the war of the worldviews, it’s easy to dehumanize the enemy. Opposing sides remain unwilling to compromise, convinced their position is the right... Blog by Read
Of Hominids and Humans January 3, 2014 I hear this comment a lot—and with good reason. Of the three daughters born to my parents, I’m most like my father in personality... Blog by Read
Comparison of Human and Chimpanzee Stem Cells Reveals Genetic Differences December 12, 2013 Researchers from the Salk Institute and UC San Diego identified a key genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees when they compared gene expression patterns... Publications by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read
Little Differences Show Up Big in Gene Expression December 6, 2013 I am what some of my friends affectionately call “vertically challenged.” The sun visor in my car is often useless to me and, depending... Blog by Read
What Is the Basis for Human Worth? August 2, 2013 A couple of nights ago, my husband and I were perusing our favorite YouTube channels and caught an insightful animated clip explaining the reasons... Blog by Read