Evolution
- Kin Selection Denied? The Evolutionary Labyrinth Of Eusociality Gets A Map
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Eusociality is the social structure where individuals cooperate to raise offspring. How does it happen? Some proponents have found the answer in kin selection theory, a 'gene's-eye' view of evolution made explicit by William Hamilton (1 ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2010 - 1:40pm
- Recent advances in biotechnolgy Role of RNA in regulation of gene expression.
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Recent studies have shown that si RNA (short interfering RNA exogenous or endogenous 19 to 25 nt (Nucleotides) has a role in regulating the gene expression. How the 21 nucleotide sequences of RNA have a regulatory function. It has been reported to have ds ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 2 2010 - 11:51pm
- Operator Hierarchy- Next Step In Evolution A Technical Life Form That Passes On Knowledge And Experience?
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Darwin’s Theory of Evolution describes the survival of the fitter, the best adapted organisms, but biologist Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis says it does not pay enough attention to the succession of living things during evolution and so has developed what he c ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2010 - 5:34pm
- Cost Of Complexity Gets A Little Cheaper
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Ronald Fisher, evolutionary biologist and statistician who introduced the method of maximum likelihood and the fiducial interval into life sciences, said basically that the more complex a plant or animal is, the more difficulty it should have adapting to ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2010 - 3:03pm
- More Mates: Expression Of Female Ornaments In Evolution
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Some females will do anything to land a mate. Biologists have described the evolution of the size of a female trait which males prefer when choosing a partner. The study in Evolutionary Biology shows that male cichlid fish prefer females with a larger p ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2010 - 3:01pm
- Nations and Talking habits
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Once I was traveling from north to south in a country of almost 6 to 7 hrs of journey by train which bring you out of the country in that time frame. Now the language will change also. As the train was in north of that country people were sitting quite an ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 11 2010 - 1:25pm
- What makes attitudes change: Give love a chance and feel the difference.
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Most of the films in Bollywood show the boy or girl rich or poor ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 12 2010 - 3:16am
- East and West have developed in different manner.
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East and West have developed in different manner. Societies evolved into countries on the global earth not so long ago taking into account history of earth. Man in last 5000 years has evolved What region has to do on development? Nature of vegetation is di ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 12 2010 - 10:16pm
- Biodiversity of plants
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Pt Jawaharlal Nehru wrote famous book Discovery of India. It depicted unity in diversity. Now if you apply the same to the world of plants and call it discovery of biodiversity, the unity in diversity is more than evident. The global earth is the only plac ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 17 2010 - 6:35pm
- Science Grows Giant Insects In The Lab- 1950s Science-Fiction Movie Warnings Ignored
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1950s horror movies were primarily irradiated monsters but they also contained a bit of a cultural slam- the heroes were often scientists but they were battling other scientists who were often not even evil, just in love with their data. Science was the ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2010 - 11:18am
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