Prosanta Chakrabarty

Jan 5, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Emmanuelle Pouydebat |Erik Butler |Jeffrey McKinnon |Prosanta Chakrabarty

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. There may be nothing unnatural in nature, but nature still encompasses much that seems fantastically strange — the amazingly multifarious sex lives of animals, for example.

Dec 21, 2023 | theguardian.com | Prosanta Chakrabarty

There is no darkness like being in a cave. I love turning off my headlamp to experience that. It probably sounds horrifying and disconcerting, but caves also have a peaceful quality to them – at least for me. It’s like Earth giving me a little hug. I’m weirdly calm when I’m in a cave. As a professor and curator of fishes at Louisiana State University, I explore hidden corners of the world and find new species, which means going to places few people have been before.

Dec 1, 2023 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Prosanta Chakrabarty |Dario Floreano |Nicola Nosengo |Jeffrey McKinnon

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Glance around any social event and it’s obvious that people, like all living things, vary in most any trait one can see or measure. And with our newfound ability to sequence entire genomes from thousands of species, we are learning that even more variation is hidden in our DNA. Working out how all this variation persists has been one of the great challenges of evolutionary biology.

Sep 1, 2023 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Prosanta Chakrabarty |Peter Watts |Christopher Mason |Immaculata De Vivo

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. When my identical twins were born, I often pushed them around town in their huge orange double-wide stroller. Someone would eventually ask, “Twins?” “Yep, identical,” I’d reply, and sometimes I’d then get, “Boy and a girl?” and I would shake my head, thinking, “Don’t these folks know what ‘identical’ means?”But I was the one who had some learning to do.

Aug 14, 2023 | ragazzo.substack.com | Bob Yirka |Leah Crane |New Scientist |Prosanta Chakrabarty

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human. LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Bob Yirka , Phys.org“The research team suggests that the unique features of the jawbone resemble those of both modern humans and Late Pleistocene hominids.