Riccardo Sabatini: How to Read the Genome and Build a Human Being

• Mother is a 3D printer
• Cystic fibrosis (嚢胞性線維症)
• Number of atoms in a baby
• Craig Venter (クレイグ・ヴェンター)
• Phenotype
• DNA

Female Reproductive System

• Menstrual cycle (月経周期)
• Menstruation (月経)
• Ovulation (排卵)
• Uterus (子宮)
• Fallopian tube (輸卵管)
• Ovary (卵巣)
• Vagina (膣)
• Cervix (子宮頸部)
• Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) (卵胞刺激ホルモン)
• Luteinizing hormone (LH) (黄体形成ホルモン)
• Estrogen (エストロゲン)
• Progesterone (プロゲステロン)
• Menopause (更年期障害)
• Meiosis (減数分裂)
• Oogenesis (卵形成)
• Ovarian follicle (卵胞)
• Corpus Luteum (黄体)
• Sex (性)

Michael Smith

Michael Smith

Richard Dawkins: People find ISIS attractive despite beheadings

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Daniel Dennett, Lawrence Krauss and Massimo Pigliucci discuss The Limits Of Science @ Het Denkgelag

Maarten Boudry, Daniel Dennett, Lawrence Krauss, Massimo Pigliucci, Limits of Science, God & the Supernatural, Science & Morality, Something out of Nothing, The Value of Philosophy, Cognitive Limits, Science & Politics, The Status of Economics, Does Consciousness Exist?

All Modern Life on Earth Derived from Common Ancestor

A universal common ancestor is at least 10²⁸⁶⁰ times more probable than having multiple ancestors, Theobald calculates.

A model that had a single common ancestor and allowed for some gene swapping among species was even better than a simple tree of life. Such a scenario is 10³⁴⁸⁹ times more probable than the best multi-ancestor model, Theobald found. That's a 1 with 3,489 zeros after it.

Theobald's study does not address how many times life may have arisen on Earth. Life could have originated many times, but the study suggests that only one of those primordial events yielded the array of organisms living today.

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LUA, LUCA, Cenancestor

Carl Woese

Carl Woese

Body Code (Drew Berry, 2003)

Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology

Drew Berry