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• Dubious Views on Octopus Evolution

• On the Origin of Speciesism, Part 1

  REVIEW: Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism Is Pushing Planetary Boundaries by Brian Swartz and Brent D. Mishler, eds. (Springer, 2022).

• NASA Persecution Case Reaches a Grim Anniversary

• The Cambrian cirratuliform Iotuba denotes an early annelid radiation

  The principal animal lineages (phyla) diverged in the Cambrian, but most diversity at lower taxonomic ranks arose more gradually over the subsequent 500 Myr. Annelid worms seem to exemplify this pattern

• A Manufactured New Sin: Speciesism

  A new thought crime takes direct aim at Genesis and human exceptionalism