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Category Archives: Evolution
Citizen Science Musings: Raising Superpests
Last week there was an article about a letter sent by several scientists to the EPA regarding the emergence of corn rootworms (Diabrotica spp.) capable of consuming genetically modified corn that was designed specifically to kill them. Continue reading
Posted in Botany, Citizen Science Musings, Entomology, Environment, Evolution
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Fossils Collected by Charles Darwin Rediscovered
British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Botany, Breaking News, Evolution, General Interest, Paleontology
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Inheritance is More Than DNA
A study has shown that nematode worms can inherit a “memory of longevity” from their parents, even though their genome remains unchanged. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Breaking News, Evolution
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Bird, Dinosaur Feathers Caught in Amber
This important study provides a clear look into the evolution of plumage, including, for the first time, “protoplumage” that adorned non-avian dinosaurs. To get a clear look at the feathers, scientists sanded away amber that was close to the feathers until just a few millimeters remained between the feathers and the surface of the amber. Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Paleontology
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News Clues About How Aggregates Become Organisms
One area of evolutionary biology that receives intense study centers around the question of how collections of many unicellular organisms become what we would recognize as a multicellular entity. It has long been known that some single-celled organisms can organize themselves into larger groups. Research continues, however, on how these groups became true multicellular organisms. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Chemistry, Evolution
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