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  • Testing Phylogenetic Hypotheses: A Question for You
  • BloomIdea: When two terms called Food are not the same term
  • Evolution of Biological Information: Lizards and a “New” Organ

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Testing Phylogenetic Hypotheses: A Question for You

You can read this proposition a dozen times over and still be unable to say what it disallows in phylogenetic inference. Source

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bloomidea.com /1 month ago

BloomIdea: When two terms called Food are not the same term

You have a supplier spreadsheet with a category column that reads Animals > Dogs > Food, and you want Drupal to end up with a real taxonomy tree: Animals, with a child Dogs,...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Evolution of Biological Information: Lizards and a “New” Organ

The first experiment that Christoph Adami discusses is one where scientists transported lizards from one island to another. Source

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phys.org /1 week ago

When biology inspires mathematics: Hidden symmetries explain why widely used evolutionary methods can give false answers

Why do some groups of organisms contain thousands of species while others have only a handful? Evolutionary biologists have spent decades trying to answer this question using mathe...

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scitechdaily.com /3 weeks ago

New Museum Discovery Shows Evolution Keeps Reinventing the Seahorse

CT scans and DNA revealed that Australia’s rare sea muppets only look like seahorses and actually belong to a separate evolutionary lineage. A tiny fish from southern Australia cou...

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phys.org /2 weeks ago

Animal genomes follow irreversible 'evolutionary highways' across thousands of species

A human, an octopus, and a coral could hardly look more different—yet deep inside their cells, their chromosomes still carry recognizable pieces of a genome inherited from an anima...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Evolution of Biological Information: The Line of Descent

In the end, Christoph Adami’s method has not shown anything about the entropy or information content of ancestral sequences. Source

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botany.one /1 month ago

Paleo Week: Getting to the Root of Roots

Fossils anchor root evolution to the tree of life

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

Orchids, Moths, and (Supposed) Evolutionary Predictions

What Adami has actually done is taken a prediction that has nothing to do with evolution and attribute it to evolutionary theory. Source

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scitechdaily.com /6 days ago

The Human Family Tree May Need a Major Rewrite

Growing evidence that early human relatives do not fit neatly into traditional categories is prompting a proposal to expand the genus Homo. The human family tree is becoming harder...

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journals.plos.org /1 week ago

Speeding up taxonomy in the digital age: A deep learning approach for identifying cryptic freshwater snails

by Dennis Vetter, Muhammad Ahsan, Diana Delicado, Thomas A. Neubauer, Thomas Wilke, Gemma Roig Cryptic species complexes pose fundamental challenges to biologists, as species exhi...

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theconversation.com /1 month ago

Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

To make sense of some characteristics that species exhibit from birth, you have to turn to an old discredited theory known as Lamarckism.

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

A Level Above: The Superiority of the Design Approach

"According to evolution, biology should be a level below human technology because evolution is constrained." Source

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botany.one /1 month ago

Paleo Week: Shining a Light on Nightshade Evolution

Solanaceae species diversification began in the Late Cretaceous -- when dinosaurs ruled the Earth

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phys.org /3 weeks ago

Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University. The study,...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

In Defiance of Evolution, Life Is an Idea

Nobody looks at a bear and thinks, “If it only had a long tail, it would be more bear-like.” Source

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phys.org /6 days ago

Metabolic networks provide clues about the earliest stages of enzyme evolution

The enzymes found in modern organisms are complex proteins, often with multiple folded substructures and specialized catalytic sites. Proteins are encoded by genes. Tracing the his...

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phys.org /1 month ago

In deep oceans, evolution is supercharged. This diversity could help unlock humanity's greatest challenges

Far beneath the surface of the ocean lies the largest and least explored habitat on Earth. The deep sea is cold, dark, highly pressurized—and home to a huge amount of undiscovered...

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thechive.com /6 days ago

Animals That Look Like Evolution Was Just Guessing

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botany.one /2 weeks ago

Introducing Species Dashboard

Get details on a species fast.

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition

It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition. Source

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phys.org /1 month ago

Updating Darwin: Biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited idea has been making a strong comeback. It helps us expla...

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phys.org /1 week ago

Texas fossil reveals early insects kept aquatic limbs during move onto land

The formation of complex terrestrial ecosystems was a significant innovation in the evolutionary history of life on Earth. This event signified the expansion of life beyond marine...

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phys.org /1 week ago

Seven new species show 250-million-year-old marine group is still evolving

Scientists believed there were only two species of hornerid bryozoans in Aotearoa New Zealand, but new research shows several more have been secretly evolving and thriving in the n...

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