18 hours ago by Jack Scanlan

Intelligent design news, commentary and discussion from the 17th of December, 2011 to the 10th of February, 2012. Huh? Intelligent design, what’s that? Oh, oh, yes. Yes, you’re quite right. I’m sorry, I’ve been out of the loop a bit and I’d forgotten this little movement I like to keep an eye on fro ...

Homologous Legs - jackscanlan.com · 49 references

17 days ago by Matthew

The giraffe species is divided into several populations, each exhibiting a region-specific colouration pattern on the hide. These have become identifiers for dividing giraffes into distinct subspecies. In the first chapter of the Origin of Species, Darwin looked to domestic animals and concluded tha ...

The Elusive Guanaco - theelusiveguanaco.blogspot.com

53 days ago by Valentí Rull

The mega-diverse genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) is one more example of the complexity of processes and interactions involved in the origin of present-day tropical biodiversity, which explanation should consider a variety of spatial and temporal scales and environmental factors, rather than simplistic a ...

Ecological Paleoecology - ecopaleo.blogspot.com

54 days ago by Prof. Anderson

Humans have a large impact on the environment—pollution, land use change, climate change, etc. We are just beginning to realize that we also cause evolutionary change, and the consequences of this. Ecology and evolution are strongly interconnected. What Is Evolution? Evolution can be viewed as genet ...

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59 days ago by Heath

What is a species? This is a question that every new biology grad student seems to get fixated on at least for a while. Personally I found the book by Jody Hey: “ Genes, Categories, and Species: TheEvolutionary and Cognitive Cause of the Species Problem” to be a satisfactory and sufficient explorati ...

Coleopterists Corner - coleoguy.blogspot.com · 2 references

61 days ago by retrieverman

From Science Daily: A study of South American songbirds completed by the Department of Biology at Queen’s University and the Argentine Museum of Natural History, has discovered these birds differ dramatically in colour and song yet show very little genetic differences which indicates they are on the ...

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69 days ago by Erik Svensson

Together with Machteld Verzijden from our lab, I recently attended the annual "winter meeting" for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB), close to London Zoo. The theme for this year's meeting was "Why do animals mate with the "wrong" partner?", and you can find a list of the talk ...

Erik Svensson Research ... - svenssonresearchlaboratory.blogspot.com · 3 references

78 days ago by News

varied bat skulls enable different food sources From “Studying bat skulls, evolutionary biologists discover how species evolve” ( Eurekalert, November 23, 2011), we learn that the explanation for why there are so many species of bats is new food sources: hey investigated why there are so many more s ...

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80 days ago by Jeremy Yoder

Will this male fruit fly pick a mate based on what she ate? Photo by Max xx. This week at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!, Sarah Hird tackles a series of studies suggesting that fruit flies may pick mates reared on similar diets because their gut microbes make them do it. In 1989, Diane Dodd reared ...

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81 days ago by Valentí Rull

The available fossil record of the cycads, considered to be potential angiosperm ancestros, goes back to the Permian, ca. 270 million years ago (Ma). At present, the cycads (Division Cycadophyta, Class Cycadopsida, Order Cycadales) comprise around 300 species, classified into 10 genera and 3 familie ...

Ecological Paleoecology - ecopaleo.blogspot.com