The Science of Food

October 17, 2025

The Cautionary Tale of Trofim Lysenko

One day, years ago, when I was a cocksure university undergraduate, I was chatting to some Jehovah’s Witnesses who had come to the door of the share house I lived in. I’d ditched lectures for the day so, as a man of leisure, I had some time to discuss philosophical issues with these poor people Continue reading

Darwin, evolution, genetics

biology, Darwin, darwinism, DNA, evolution, genetics, lamarck, lamarckism, lysenko, lysenkoism, Science, spring wheat, wheat, winter wheat
August 8, 2025

Quick Bite: New research shows what was on the menu 2 million years ago

The Ship of Theseus is the name given to a thought experiment first related by Plutarch around the beginning of the second century. In this story the ship Theseus rescued the children of Athens with was kept by the people of Athens and used every year in a pilgrimage to Delos. Over time, and many Continue reading

diet, evolution

C3 plants, C4 plants, diet, evolution, fitness, Food, health, hominins, human evolution, isotopes, nutrition, weight-loss