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Andreas Wagner Pursues the Secrets to Evolutionary Success
...what drives evolution, and he has wondered about evolutionary innovations that seem to lead nowhere — until they suddenly become the next big thing. His most recent book, Sleeping Beauties:...
Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin
...just think about droplets like Oparin did, then it’s not clear how evolution could act on these droplets,” Zwicker said. “For evolution, you have to make copies of yourself with...
Chemists Seek Possible Precursor to RNA
...the outcome of biological evolution and a largely undescribed stage of chemical evolution.” My Grandfather’s Ax Scientists have long considered alternative chemistries for RNA, synthesizing molecules with alien components that...
A New Approach to Building the Tree of Life
When the British morphologist St. George Jackson Mivart published one of the first evolutionary trees in 1865, he had very little to go on. He built the tree — a...
Decoding the Remarkable Algorithms of Ants
...thought of yet. I am interested in the idea that evolution might produce different algorithms in different systems to solve the same problems. But for evolution to produce algorithms that...
Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe
...matter in the universe as a peculiar kind of fluid. They have calculated properties that characterize the universe’s behavior and evolution, including its viscosity, or resistance to deformation by sound...
The Woman Who Stared at Wasps
...fascinated scientists for more than a century because they pose an evolutionary conundrum. Darwin himself saw their way of life as a challenge to his ideas. The theory of evolution...
New Fish Data Reveal How Evolutionary Bursts Create Species
...determines biological diversity has pestered evolutionary biologists ever since Wallace and Darwin came up with their theory of evolution,” Salzburger said. The new study doesn’t provide conclusive answers, but it...
A Surprise Source of Life’s Code
...existence,” said David Begun, a biologist at the University of California, Davis. New genes appear to burst into existence at various points along the evolutionary history of the mouse lineage...