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Cells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions
...effect.” Evolution as Electrician At the University of California, San Diego, the biophysicist Gürol Süel studies electricity in bacterial biofilms, which are collectives composed of single-celled bacteria that can also...
The Year in Biology
...perspective propels our story beyond biological evolution and into planetary evolution. It reveals that all we are and will ever know is ultimately part of Earth’s carbon cycle. And isn’t...
Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects
Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental constraints on evolution. It’s a universal fact that as any 3D object, from a...
Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex
...unicellular ancestors — before evolution had even thought of metazoans, so to speak. It’s not at all obvious why that should have been so; evolution has no universal direction, no...
To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves
...view, should take a cue from evolutionary biology. “There’s this very famous quote by [the geneticist Theodosius] Dobzhansky: ‘Nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of evolution,’” she...
How Humanity Amplified Life’s Quest for Energy
...is not simply the unconscious effect of ordinary, biological evolutionary success, such as the accidental transformation of the atmosphere by cyanobacteria billions of years ago. We are the product of...
Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’
...evolution does not work toward a specific goal. “It’s not like there was an ideal form of a fish or something which was somehow shown to evolution, and then it...
Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life
...to trace; there are no living intermediate states between prokaryote and eukaryote that could reveal its evolutionary trajectory. “We are missing a long time, a long branch of evolution, where...
The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees
...pattern [of abrupt evolution] getting measured in molecular data.” What conditions could change the evolutionary tempo where trees fork? After spending time in new surroundings or experiencing new evolutionary pressures,...