Evolution

You wouldn’t know it by current world events, but humans actually evolved to be peaceful, cooperative and social animals.- ‘Man the Hunter’ theory is debunked in new book, February 18, 2006, By Neil Schoenherr So begins a discussion regarding humans as a ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jun 24 2013 - 9:51am

Maybe Evolution Will Save Us From Environmental Change

Some assume that evolution only occurs gradually, over hundreds or thousands of years, but scientists have shown otherwise numerous times and now a new paper in Ecology Letters affirms that environmental change can drive hard-wired evolutionary changes in ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2013 - 10:50am

Parasitoids Versus Aphids: The Genetics Of Life And Death

Researchers recently studied the reaction of aphids when a parasitic wasp with genetic variation laid eggs in them and found that different genotypes of the wasp affected where the aphids went to die, including whether they left the plant host entirely. T ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2013 - 6:00pm

First, Second Mouth...?

Recently, there was found in Spain a shelled Pre-Cambrian Critter which showed distinct evidence of a gut. This got me thinking about the distinction between the deuterostomes and protostomes, interest in which was sparked again by the even more recent a ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jul 2 2018 - 1:45pm

Should Evolution Be A Law Rather Than A Theory?

"Yeah well, it's just a theory". Seven words that make my blood boil. This same point has been made in every evolution-creation debate there has ever been, and it provokes the same exasperated response from the evolution camp every time. &q ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Apr 23 2013 - 8:00pm

Finding Nematostella: How Epithelial Cell Shape Changes Drive Tentacle Development

When you read studies about embryogenesis and the cellular and molecular mechanisms used by cells to assemble into layers or clusters of epithelial cells, you often see the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model. Stowers Institute for Medical Resear ...

Article - News Staff - May 2 2013 - 11:33am

How Digestive Organs Evolved: A Cannibal Tadpole Tale

The African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and Budgett's frog (Lepidobatrachus laevis) differ in diet and last shared a common ancestor about 110 million years ago but what they were found to have in common could help researchers on the path to prevent ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2013 - 5:45pm

Evolution Gets Abused Again

Well there's a new article " May Atheism Succeed Demographically " that has invoked another variant of social Darwinism, yet again. Certainly there are many situations in which one might utilize the concept of evolution, in describing a vari ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - May 9 2013 - 2:21pm

In Birds, Personality Can Be A Question Of Weather

We all know about people’s personalities, and anyone with a dog or a cat will also tell you about their temperaments. More surprising, though, is how many others, from octopuses to frogs and even spiders have them. So why behave according to a personality ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - May 10 2013 - 2:24pm

Utricularia Gibba: Carnivorous Plant Deletes Its Own Noncoding "Junk" DNA

The large majority of non-coding DNA, which is abundant in many living things, may not actually be needed for complex life in at least one carnivorous plant, Utricularia gibba, according to a paper in Nature. U. gibba, the carnivorous bladderwort plant, ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2013 - 10:21am