Category: Evolution
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Tarantulas… Colours… Evolution… Destiny…
Tarantulas have evolved almost exactly the same shade of vibrant blue at least eight separate times. (1) If time does not exist, is anything happening now NOT defined by what happened in the past and by what WILL happen in the future? Can things happen in any other way? Like tarantulas evolving the same colour…
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Let the chicken be. Live. [An argument against analysis of anything]
Birds evolved from dinosaurs 150 million years ago, a slow but thorough transformation. Their bodies gained aerodynamic feathers, their digits fused into wings, and they acquired a beak used to gather food. We can see some details of this evolutionary marvel in the fossil record. Yet even the most exquisitely preserved fossil can’t tell us…
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Cancer. Bad luck. Evolution. Luck. Lack of luck...
Some tissue types give rise to human cancers millions of times more often than other tissue types. Although this has been recognized for more than a century, it has never been explained. Here, we show that the lifetime risk of cancers of many different types is strongly correlated (0.81) with the total number of divisions…
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Reverse evolution. Strange as Evolution…
The saga of the Osedax "bone-eating" worms began 12 years ago, with the first discovery of these deep-sea creatures that feast on the bones of dead animals. The Osedax story grew even stranger when researchers found that the large female worms contained harems of tiny dwarf males. Examining bone worms collected at 700 meters (2,296…
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Idiocracy...
Is human intelligence rising with every generation? (1) wonders an article... Voters Prefer Candidates Who Look Healthy Rather Than Intelligent, is the title of another article. (2) What do you think? Is it logical to believe that evolution prefers the survival of the more intelligent? Do you see people with high IQ reproduce in similar…
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