Biology

In the philosophy of science there is a segment, not so familiar, but with sufficient identity that it deserves the name: evolutionary epistemology (EE). One of the goals of EE is to explain how biological […]

We suffer from the feeling of cosmic loneliness. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, summed up our geeky nature by asking a simple question: Where is everybody? All predictions […]

Is the man technically the most intelligent species on the planet? Judging by our technologies, from the Internet through building skills to the military industry, medicine and artificial intelligence, there is no doubt that Homo […]

Welcome to my blog! I am a professional scientist with over 25 years of working experience at Leiden, St Andrews, Cambridge and Brunel universities. I’m interested in biomolecules, cells, organisms, how organisms form societies, and […]