Lucky are those who have never questioned their birth sex. This year 2017 has seen a public explosion on the uncertainty of gender identity ie people who don’t know if they are male or female. They are known as non-binary… Continue Reading
To give a weatherproof coating on the brickwork of my gene-related articles that cross to the grey zone between nature and science, this column is about how Britain is now right in the forefront to change human species. It’s because… Continue Reading
The discussion today is about whether size of organisms (individual forms of life) matter at all. Size does not seem to matter among the animal kingdom and plant kingdom. A very tall person has his advantages and disadvantages as the… Continue Reading
For hundreds of years poets have been imagining a moth flying into the naked candle flame as suicide because of its love for the flame. The romantic song sung by Madhubala in the film Mahal, with Ashok Kumar, says it… Continue Reading
Designer babies by genome editing is on the way once the ethical problems have been sorted out. Caution is always required before embarking on unknown scientific projects, lest it turn out like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. It has been so before… Continue Reading
One man’s radical thinking changed the reality of the beginning of our existence from what had been the mind-set of medieval people for centuries all over the world. Darwinian (biological) evolution has been going on over the past 4 billion… Continue Reading
The Galapagos Islands “effected the greatest of all revolutions in human thought as Darwin made the first step out of the fairy tale of creationism into the coherent and comprehensible world of modern biology” – Julian Huxley, a famous English… Continue Reading
Genetic Evidence Of The Origin Of Meiteis From Africa How Did The First African Meiteis Change to Mongoloid Features The most successful 8th Manipur POLO International Tournament, 2014, organised with military precision, ended on 29 November with a fanfare and… Continue Reading
A WORLD WITHOUT GOD. IS IT POSSIBLE? I don’t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it, said Albert Einstein.… Continue Reading
Complex Human Relationship With Bacteria The adult human gastro-intestinal tract (GI tract) consists of mainly the stomach and the intestines (small and large). It is 20ft (5m) long. In it live a variety of bacteria (germs) that are single-celled microscopic… Continue Reading