Evolution
- Evolutionary Imbalance: Darwin Was Right About Invasive Species
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worried, but this would suggest they should be more worried about imports from some parts of the world than ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2014 - 10:01am
- What Grapevine Transposons Can Teach Us About Genome Evolution
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The grapevine (Vitis vinifera) is a widely cultivated crop that has been subjected to intensive breeding since the Neolithic period (from ~10,500 to ~6,000 years ago). The domestication of grapevine has undergone a selection for traits important for its cu ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2008 - 9:52pm
- There's Never Been A Better Year to Learn About Evolution
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That's because there is going to be so much great, non-technical writing in honor of Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On The Origin of Species. We're going to have some great Darwin Day writing here at ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 8 2009 - 11:50pm
- Edentulism: Tooth Loss In Birds Occurred About 116 Million Years Ago
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Edentulism, the absence of teeth, has evolved on multiple occasions within vertebrates including birds, turtles, and a few groups of mammals such as anteaters, baleen whales and pangolins, but where early birds are concerned, the fossil record is fragment ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2014 - 9:00am
- Does Truth Matter?
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'sociobiology', a science of which she aspires to be a serious scholar. When biologists talk about ...
Article - Steve Davis - Nov 26 2011 - 8:42pm
- Blooming Botany (1B)
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programme suggests that this is in fear of what the clergy might say about him tampering with God’s ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Jul 5 2011 - 6:14pm
- The First Known Deuterostome?
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Saccorhytus was about a millimetre in size, and probably lived between grains of sand on the seabed. Its ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Feb 14 2017 - 4:41pm
- Why Don't We Have Giant Insects Today?
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Fossilized insect wing of Stephanotypus schneideri from about 300 million years ago, when insects reached ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2012 - 4:13pm
- Darwin And The Origin Of Life
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Información y Noticias Científicas (SINC). Darwin had advanced ideas about the origin of life, says a new ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2009 - 11:57am
- Utricularia Gibba: Carnivorous Plant Deletes Its Own Noncoding "Junk" DNA
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and trap unsuspecting critters. The U. gibba genome has about 80 million DNA base pairs — a miniscule ...
Article - News Staff - May 13 2013 - 10:21am