Paul G. Ellis

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Does “Western” liberal democracy require a hegemonic civilisation to guarantee and maintain its values?

[UPDATED FROM: Is “Western” liberal democracy essentially unique, or have other systems with similar values flourished in other places and times? For example, might some small city-states such as...

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Is it possible that any lithoautotrophs evolved from an independent origin of life on Earth?

Ramunas Stepanauskas has recently reported, in Nature publishing group’s ISME Journal, the ancient and remarkably widely distributed “living fossil” lithotroph Desulpforudis audaxviator. A...

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