Thought I may as well post this here since this kind of encompasses most of the topics discussed on here. This caused quite the controversy/stir in the comments in the New York Times, particularly given how responsive the author was in the comments. Bruce Fenton also left a comment I noticed.
We already have a long running thread on evolution but a kind of secondary debate has developed in which we have been discussing the nature of the intelligence driving evolution - if any. Now, I say "if any" and the assertion or doubt of that is the meat of the other discussion but, for the sake of
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Paul Stamets is a legendary mycologist, and in this tour de force keynote at Exponential Medicine ([url=https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGFGVXJUdGZ5TlROVXdVYl9iV0d4YmFaWkJkUXxBQ3J
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Their new evidence comes from Fitak, who mined one of the largest genetic databases of microbes, known as the Metagenomic Rapid Annotations using S
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