Category: Biology Philosophy
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Invasive species, “invasive” species, categories…
A research suggests that an invasive species of midge has the potential to drastically alter Antarctic ecosystems that have been isolated for millions of years. That species of midge was well-suited to thrive in the extreme conditions and has managed to release large volumes of nutrients into the soil, changing the way native species live…
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Biggest extinction, revenge of the microbes, “evolution”…
Scientists believe, according to a new study, that a humble microbe, instead of a devastating meteorite or a catastrophic volcanic eruption, wiped off over 90 percent of the species on Earth (including my favorite trilobites) 251-million-years ago. [source 1=”<a” href=”http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/permian-mass-extinction-triggered-by-microbe_817060.html” 2=”target="_blank">web” 3=”news</a>” language=”:”][/source] Well, if a microbe is the reason for the extinction of “more…
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Human body is 90% microbes and bacteria. Who is in “control” ?
Almost 90% of the cells of the human body are microbes [1]. A recent publication in American Scientific claimed that bacteria outnumber your own cells 10 to 1. [American Scientific, June 2012] Who are we? What are we? Who is actually in “control” in the thing we like to call “human body” ? If bacteria…
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Ants’ hive mind – Could humans also have one?
Researchers at Arizona State University tracked individual ants marked with colored dots as they selected a home out of a set of eight nest sites, half good and half poor. On their own, ants got overwhelmed and chose good sites only 50 percent of the time — no better than chance. But when the whole colony was…
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New Russel Wallace site – The coronation of dogmatism
A new site with the collected works of Russel Wallace is online. However the problem is that this site is not so objective as one might think it is. It describes Wallace as the “co-founder” of the Theory of Evolution while he was just THE founder. Although in Wallace’s biography it is stated that Wallace…
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