Anne Buchanan
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Anne Buchanan is an emeritus research associate in the anthropology department at Penn State University, and author of The Mermaid’s Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things (2009).
Written by Anne Buchanan
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Human evolution
Sex makes babies
As far as we can tell, no other animal knows this. Did our understanding of baby-making change the course of human history?
Holly Dunsworth & Anne Buchanan
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Philosophy of science
The real two cultures
I am a geneticist, my sister works a dairy farm. Our lives are so different we might as well be living in parallel worlds
Anne Buchanan
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Biology
Things genes can’t do
Simplistic ideas of how genes ‘cause’ traits are no longer viable: life is an orderly collection of uncertainties
Anne Buchanan & Kenneth Weiss