These articles highlight new concepts that are shaking up our understanding of how everything from evolution to neuroscience functions and fits together.
Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists | Wired Science | Wired.com: "On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two."
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Murderer with 'aggression genes' gets sentence cut - life - 03 November 2009 - New Scientist: "In 2007, Abdelmalek Bayout admitted to stabbing and killing a man and received a sentenced of 9 years and 2 months. Last week, Nature reported that Pier Valerio Reinotti, an appeal court judge in Trieste, Italy, cut Bayout's sentence by a year after finding out he has gene variants linked to aggression. Leaving aside the question of whether this link is well enough understood to justify Reinotti's decision, should genes ever be considered a legitimate defence?"
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