I am a young lion and this is my pride, being a fictionalized account from the perspective of the King of the Jungle

Lion

For the past three years, I have wandered mostly alone after being driven from the pride of my birth, doomed to lurk at the edge of my elder’s territory, always on the outside, looking in, but all that has changed since I drove off my father and killed his cubs.  I am a young lion,… Continue reading I am a young lion and this is my pride, being a fictionalized account from the perspective of the King of the Jungle

Evolution: Three new studies highlight the marvelous contradictions between preserved forms and new innovations that support complex life on Earth

We, indeed all life on Earth, are as ancient as we are new, as grandly complex as we are simple.  Indeed, it is fair to say that complex life wouldn’t exist at all without this contradiction. The mammalian ear is significantly more complex than our bird and lizard cousins in the vertebrate family.  Rather than… Continue reading Evolution: Three new studies highlight the marvelous contradictions between preserved forms and new innovations that support complex life on Earth