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What’s in a Name? Taxonomy Problems Vex Biologists
...Even if phyla were defined on the basis of evolutionary timing, deciding which point in the evolutionary process to use would still be arbitrary and anthropogenic. “If you want to...
Brain-Signal Proteins Evolved Before Animals Did
...language with which neurons speak to each other. But when evolutionary biologists tried to deduce which animal cells first started to use that language, the murkiness of early animal evolution...
What Is Life?
...Not think about chemistry or geology or physics or astronomy, biology as separate things. But it’s one interconnected web, in which we see this amazing process of evolution, evolution of...
A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation
...evolution of these weird, workerless social parasites,” Kronauer said. The Strength of Supergenes Little is known about the evolutionary history of the supergene on chromosome 13 that confers the social...
The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life
...his idea over the years but was otherwise uninvolved with the work. The field is overflowing with papers about triggers for the evolution of animal multicellularity that draw on geochemical...
A New Physics Theory of Life
Jeremy England, a 31-year-old physicist at MIT, thinks he has found the underlying physics driving the origin and evolution of life. Save Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a...
Fragile DNA Enables New Adaptations to Evolve Quickly
If highly repetitive gene-regulating sequences in DNA are easily lost, then that may explain why some adaptations evolve quickly and repeatedly. Evolutionary biologists have puzzled over why nature, with vast...
In Ecology Studies and Selfless Ants, He Finds Hope for the Future
For more than six decades, the influential biologist Edward O. Wilson has drawn connections between evolution, ecology and behavior, often sparking controversies inside and outside of science. No one else...
Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
...recent successes in artificial intelligence — to predict the future evolution of chaotic systems out to stunningly distant horizons. The approach is being lauded by outside experts as groundbreaking and...