Science Alert reports on an evolutionary study that has found our butts (from which everybody, as the children’s book tells us, poops) were originally a little bit more risque. The… Read the rest “Our butts used to be sperm dispensers.”
In science-nerd circles, people lately have been really into talking about how many times crabs evolve — that is, how many unrelated invertebrate families wind up mutating into … Read the rest “Intelligence evolved at least twice on Earth.”
This is one of the plates from the 100 illustrations in Kunst-Formen der Natur, or “Art Forms in Nature,” by Ernst Haeckel, a scientist – or philosopher of science –… Read the rest “Science Art: Cystoidea, by Ernst Haeckel”
Today, the company that produced this add is known as Lindblad Expeditions, and is so closely associated with National Geographic that it’s often known as NatGeo/Lindblad Expeditions.… Read the rest “Science Art: Lindblad Travel ad, 1969.”
Scientific American upends the old idea that manly men evolved to hunt for meat for growing prehistoric families with physiological evidence that women – who are better endurance… Read the rest “Exercise scientists: women hunted, men gathered”
Scientific American steps into the fast lane, unexpectedly, on the island of Redonda. People wiped out the local (invasive) populations of rats and goats, and instead of taking centuries… Read the rest “Island lizards are evolving – in one year’s time.”
The Guardian has some sweet potato evolutionary research that unintentionally drives a wedge in the idea that the presence of the humble yam in both places indicates that prehistoric Polynesian… Read the rest “Sigh. Maybe a sweet potato *doesn’t* mean that prehistoric Polynesians visited South America after all.”
I can’t beat Nature‘s headline, so I won’t even try. “Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans.” The creatures from the Late Cretaceous… Read the rest “Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans”
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This is some currency art done in niobium and silver, honoring the discipline of evolutionary biology. I don’t think it has any *actual* DNA… Read the rest “Science Art: 2014 Evolutionary Biology – Austrian 25 Euro, designed by Helmut Andexlinger.”
Nature tries to solve a nearly intractable chicken-and-egg problem for evolutionary biologists. Which is the oldest kind of animal, a sponge or a comb jelly? They’re both simple… Read the rest “Which came first, the sponge or the jelly? (We might have an answer.)”
PLOS Biology wants us to know that in a cost/benefit analysis, love comes out ahead:
… Read the rest “Love and Fitness”A new study published in PLOS Biology by Malika Ihle, Bart Kempenaers, and Wolfgang Forstmeier attempts
ScienceDaily keeps an eye out for creepy-crawlies with news that primate vision may have evolved *specifically* to identify snakes:
… Read the rest “Snake vision. We evolved for snake vision.”In a paper published Oct. 28 in the journal Proceedings
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings:
… Read the rest “Pitchers tell evolution’s story”“Throwing projectiles probably enabled
Nature demonstrates how (possibly) our machines are transforming birds’ whole existence:
… Read the rest “Cars shape sparrows’ evolution.”Roadside-nesting cliff swallows have evolved shorter, more manoeuvrable wings, which
Or at least, Astrobiology says, save the species’ descendants. The secret of survival, on an evolutionary scale, isn’t a single lucky mutant, but a whole “relay team”… Read the rest “Slow and steady mutations save the species.”
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