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• What Is Consciousness?

  Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers.

• Philosophy of Biological Information

  What is information in biology? information is essential for analyzing data and testing hypotheses. But what is information in evolution, population genetics, levels of selection, and molecular genetics? Is computational biology transformational?

• The genetics of niche-specific behavioral tendencies in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes

  Lake Tanganyika contains one of the most impressive adaptive radiations, with about 250 species of cichlid occupying a variety of niches. Much research has focused on understanding the drivers of this and other adaptive radiations.

• A gene mutation turned these fish into intrepid explorers

  That behavioral change could explain the remarkable diversity of cichlid fish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika

• The Golden Numbers

  Evolutionists theorize that the universe came into being through random means. Nature, however, does not display randomness. In fact, it exhibits quite the opposite.