Steven Pinker(@sapinker):Works in Progress may be the most interesting magazine publishing today. This article on the evolution of horses nicely illustrates the power of selection (natural and artificial) of heritable traits to shape a species, but also the massive role of developmental chance: Secretariat, history's fastest horse, had a massive heart, in his case a non-genetic trait which was not passed on to his descendants.

2026.09.13 15:49

Works in Progress may be the most interesting magazine publishing today. This article on the evolution of horses nicely illustrates the power of selection (natural and artificial) of heritable traits to shape a species, but also the massive role of developmental chance: Secretariat, history's fastest horse, had a massive heart, in his case a non-genetic trait which was not passed on to his descendants.