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When unbridled competition is clearly inefficient and how more competition is not always a good thing.I explains how private contracts and limited competition have been treated as presumptively illegal under the anti-trust laws which implicitly rest on the premise that more competition is always a good thing. Yet in many cases, unbridled competition is clearly inefficient.

A new dinosaur find is shedding light on the history of bone-headed dinosaurs, while at the same time reminding scientists of the shortcomings of the fossil record.

Even the best of us are horrible at predicting the future.

What will we look like 100,000 years from now?

Is built into our species?

How evolution experienced a case of arrested development in relation to human affairs.I explain how evolutionary thought has developed more or less continuously in the life sciences since Darwin, but experienced a case of arrested development in relation to human affairs. A renewed effort to rethink the human-related academic disciplines began in the late 20th century, comprising a second wave of evolutionary thought.

Like the modern ostrich or penguin, Habib proposes <em>Archaeopteryx</em> may have had ancestors that could fly but then adapted to a lifestyle that did not require it any longer.

The kind­ness of mankind most likely devel­oped from our more sin­is­ter and self-serving ten­den­cies.