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EVOLUTION SPECIAL ISSUE
The limits of science

Michael Cook | 13 February 2006

Intelligent Design is compatible with Christian theology, but it is not the only such approach to evolution that is. A philosopher clarifies his views.

Your gender is not an accident

Carolyn Moynihan | 15 October 2005 | 37

The idea of medical intervention to change one's sex has gained credibility in recent years. Dr Rick Fitzgibbons thinks that it has been a great mistake.

An international research team has finally sequenced the chimpanzee genome and found a mere one per cent difference with the human genome. Spanish geneticist Julio Coll explains the significance in an interview.

Is the biotech revolution a myth?

Michael Cook | 10 December 2004

All over the world governments are staking the future of their economies on biotechnology, especially stem cell research. Have they been sold a pig in a poke?

The mystery of the Indonesian hobbits

Carlos Marmelada | 26 November 2004

An Australian research team, led by paleoanthropologists Peter Brown and Mike Morwood, recently announced the discovery of a new human species, different from us, but co-existing with our species, Homo sapiens (1). The specimen found on the Indonesian island of Flores measures a bit over a meter tall, and has a cranial volume of 380 cm3, similar to that of a chimpanzee. However, it appears to be an intelligent species based on the stone instruments associated with it. If this information is confirmed, we have here an extraordinary discovery.

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