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Life ScriptWith the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the genetic program that evolution has written for the human body. A new generation of...Read More
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Science News Online, January 15, 2010
...Several recent best sellers in the natural and social sciences have portrayed religious belief as irrational and even downright harmful. In his new book, Wade gives faith a reprieve. He argues that religion served crucial purposes in ancient societies...
Washington Post, December 25, 2009
...See THE FAITH INSTINCT How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures The Penguin Press. 310 pp. $25.95 Nicholas Wade, who has worked as an editor and reporter for the New York Times, Nature magazine and the journal Science, is part scholar and part journalist,...
The Age, November 28, 2009
...thanks to Him - or Her or It. Another new book, The Faith Instinct, by my Times colleague Nicholas Wade, suggests a reason for the durability of faith: humans may be programmed for religious belief, because faith conferred evolutionary advantages in...
Denver Post, November 27, 2009
...gave thanks to Him or Her or It. Another new book, 'The Faith Instinct,' by my Times colleague Nicholas Wade, suggests a reason for the durability of faith: Humans may be programmed for religious belief because faith conferred evolutionary advantages in...
WXEL, November 20, 2009
...Stephen King returns to form in a new novel, Zadie Smith fascinates in collected essays, and science writer Nicholas Wade argues that God is just an evolutionary adaptation. At NPR, we cover a lot of books every week. Among those, there are always a...
CBS News, November 12, 2009
...spiritual? Or are you scientific? Make a decision. Make your argument. Never look back. Into this fray wades Nicholas Wade, who takes a clever, non-confrontational approach to the topic with his new book The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved & Why It...
Huffington Post, October 11, 2009
...concern here are the uses and abuses of evolution in biology and a recent review by science journalist Nicholas Wade of the New York Times (NYT Book Review, Sunday, October 11, 2009), the review an essay about a new book by the British ethologist and...
New York Times, July 9, 2009
...to embrace microevolution even as it rejected macroevolution, and Readers chimed in with arguments for and against creationism. Nicholas Wade?s item, about Robert Wright?s new book, The Evolution of God, further fueled the debate. Why this great...
HometownAnnapolis.com, April 8, 2009
...excessive detail: Nonfiction writers who become experts on their subjects sometimes go too far. 'Before the Dawn' by Nicholas Wade should have been an informative look at what modern genetic discoveries reveal about the origins of mankind. Instead it...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, January 7, 2010
...the Information Age by Kurt W. Beyer The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health by John Wargo Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life by...
Sciencebase Science Blog, December 17, 2009
...of books with a religious theme at this time of year. The first is The Faith Instinct by Nicholas Wade. Wade is a well-known New York Times writer who presents the case for an evolutionary origin to religious faith. Religion has probably been with us in...
io9, November 15, 2009
...of it is regarded as fact anymore. In Before the Dawn, Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors , Nicholas Wade summarizes various genetic studies to paint a very different portrait of both Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. Wade uses various...
io9, November 15, 2009
...of it is regarded as fact anymore. In Before the Dawn, Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors , Nicholas Wade summarizes various genetic studies to paint a very different portrait of both Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. Wade uses various...
Science Notes, October 11, 2009
...Mead on evolution, Jane Goodall on primate research, Edward O. Wilson on sociobiology, Richard Leakey on paleontology, and Nicholas Wade on recombinant DNA research This book has exerpts from the writings of pre-Darwinian scientists such as Sir...
Knight Science Journalism Tracker, September 15, 2009
...graphics, readers ought to be able to understand their gist at a glance. Good luck on that with Nicholas Wade ’s piece on something really complicated: the palindromic means by which the Y chromosome checks itself for errors , and how the errors that...
Wikipedia - Recent changes [en], June 3, 2009
...^ The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute; Annual Assessment, 2007 ^ United Jewish Communities; Global Jewish Populations ^ Nicholas Wade, "Gene Test Shows Spain's Jewish and Muslim Mix", New York Times , 12/5/2008, p.A12 ^ Online Etymology...
Gene Expression, May 6, 2009
...Jewish mothers on the Upper West Side. But at the same time, the NYT also allows Carl Zimmer, Nicholas Wade, and John Tierney to get the word out about a lot of great research. I didn't read the NYT in 1981, as I was not even 1 year...
