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What Is the Nature of Time?
...that radiation tends to go out from things and not come in. There’s this arrow of time associated with evolution of life. And many others you could invent on the...
How Is Science Even Possible?
...ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology. Because, in fact, the real code is a product of evolution. And there’s nothing special about the number 20. So, this is an example of,...
Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy
...magnetism on the evolution of stars and galaxies, and Clark is one of the scientists spearheading this effort. As the leader of the Cosmic Magnetism and Interstellar Physics group at...
What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels?
...“You can assume the system is working optimally,” said Aravinthan Samuel, a biophysicist at Harvard University. Evolution has created the flagellar motor, a combination propeller/brain that enables single-celled bacteria to...
The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells
...cell sparsely enough to meander and hide efficiently when they need to. “The beautiful thing we see here is what a great designer evolution is,” said Dakota McCoy, an evolutionary...
How Ecotypes Harbor the Genetic Memory of a Species’ Past
...On the Origin of Ecotypes Over the years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether ecotypes are a first step in the evolution of new species. Are thick- and thin-shelled snails, marine...
A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order
...eagles, for instance, to spot mice from a mile high), and his lab studies the evolutionary adaptations that make this so. Many of these attributes are believed to have been...
Why Are There Two Sexes?
...saw in the May insights column, Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism?, evolutionary-fitness calculations over many generations are essentially serial multiplications. And there’s a key difference between asexual and sexual populations....
In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech
...of bird genomes — something he’s now helping to do for thousands of vertebrate species as a co-chair of the Genome 10K Project — in order to construct accurate evolutionary...