Evolution
- Platypus And The Problem With Primitive
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The concept of "primitive" is one that is very often misunderstood. Properly defined, "primitive" means "more like a particular ancestor", refers only to individual characteristics (not whole species or lineages), and is contr ...
Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Jul 27 2010 - 9:43am
- Overselling segmentation
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This story appeared on Science Daily, based on a press release from CNRS in France: Segmentation Is the Secret Behind the Extraordinary Diversification of Animals ScienceDaily (July 27, 2010) — Segmentation, the repetition of identical anatomical units, se ...
Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Jul 27 2010 - 7:59am
- Arguing Against The Gene-Centric View
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One of the problems that gave rise to the gene-centric view is the prevalence of the notion that individuals tended to evolve for the "good of the species". In essence the gene-centric view argued that natural selection operated for the "go ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Jul 30 2010 - 8:31pm
- Distributed Computing Evolves Into Distributed Thinking: A Path Toward The Singularity
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Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Aug 6 2010 - 7:19am
- Dark photosynthesis in CAM plants
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Nature has evolved all strategies to combat heat and drought. Plants which look like stones store carbondioxide during night time in their cell vacuole in the form of malate derived from dark form of Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase which fixed carbondioxi ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 6 2010 - 8:23pm
- Mitochondrial Eve- Statistics Study Says Mother Of Modern Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago
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A new Rice University study's side-by-side comparison of 10 human genetic models to determine when 'mitochondrial Eve'(mtEve), the maternal ancestor of all living humans, lived uses a very different set of assumptions about the way humans mi ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2010 - 11:20am
- Eiffel Tower now
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Eiffel tower is one of the destination which I had visited in 1974. I visited again in 2010. That time fees was less and it was per level 1st or 2nd or Top. Now its flat rate of Euro 13.50 or so per person irrespective to the height you want to climb. The ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 20 2010 - 4:30pm
- Evolutionary Imagery: Illustrating (And Distorting) The History Of Life
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My talk on evolutionary imagery at the Centre For Inquiry. ...
Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Aug 21 2010 - 6:48pm
- Artificial chromosomes
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Bacteria perhaps have smallest chromosomes in organized fashion though they lack nuclear membrane. ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 23 2010 - 10:22am
- Octopus theory
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If Octopus will be deciding the outcome of world football matches in future also it will not be a surprise. The reason is simple. People say all the 23 predictions that Octopus made came true. I dint follow them all but I believe what was shown in the most ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 24 2010 - 8:37am
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