Ludwig Boltzmann suggested that natural selection was fundamentally a struggle among organisms for available energy. Alfred Lotka argued that organisms that capture and use more energy than their competition will […]
Is the Modern Mass Extinction Overrated?
We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses. If you want to measure how the state of the world is changing, and that’s a valuable thing to do, you […]
Biological and Cultural Evolution
Six Characters in Search of an Author An EDGE Original Essay By Freeman Dyson In the near future, we will be in possession of genetic engineering technology which allows us to […]