"Thus, calls for extending evolutionary theory or completely replacing it fall flat – no novel mechanisms of evolution have yet been discovered in almost 100 years."
https://aeon.co/essays/a-resurrected-defence-of-beanbag-genetics
Reading a paper about cloth moth evolution. Really interesting!
At the end of the intro, they hypothesize co-evolution between humans and synanthropic moths. Well, that sounds very unlikely but ok I guess?
Like, recent adaptations maybe, but co-evolution seems a bit extreme.
Also I would expect it to be only in the moth, it sounds unlikely that there would be any impact on human evolution besides cultural practices...
Cracking Open Evolution’s Black Box on 'Lizard Island'
On an island in South Florida, scientists use trials to see how natural selection drives evolution in real time.#reptiles #evolution #animalislands #islands #scientistsatwork #science #lizards #partnerstoryinternal #section-Articles
Cracking Open Evolution’s Black Box on 'Lizard Island'
Uncovering The Genomic Secrets Of Color Variants In Female Cuckoo Birds
"Why do female common cuckoos have one of two different colors, whilst the males are all the same color?"
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#birds #ornithology #color #evolution #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/uncovering-the-genomic-secrets-of
Crows can recognize geometric regularity
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-crows-geometric-regularity.html
Uncovering The Genomic Secrets Of Color Variants In Female Cuckoo Birds
"Why do female common cuckoos have one of two different colors, whilst the males are all the same color?"
by @GrrlScientist via #Substack
#birds #ornithology #color #evolution #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/uncovering-the-genomic-secrets-of
Passing five hundred
Haiku factorial mark
Poetry makers
#Haiku #Science #Physics #Biophysics #Photosynthesis #Deuterium #Chemistry #GOE #Evolution #Video #Sunday #COVID https://youtu.be/67sLlXeMg2I?si=d-6wVgtxF4OYOew-
Mastadon
French museum of Natural history in París
Taken 2019
https://www.mnhn.fr/en/grande-galerie-de-l-evolution-gallery-of-evolution
“𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚍𝚟𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎.”
― 𝘐𝘴𝘢𝘢𝘤 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘷
tell people who doubt #evolution:
"look at your feet
you can't tell me that didn't used to be a hand. why the fuck can you wiggle your toes? what the fuck are even your toes? yeah yeah balance, gait, etc- that's just making what you got work. which is obviously something that until very recently was a hand, that is now halfway to turning into a hoof or pad or some tripod thing in another couple million years. it's not an #intelligentDesign! the human foot is fucking stupid"
#30DayChartChallenge Día 13: Clusters Animales! 
Explorando la relación Masa Corporal vs Longevidad Máxima. #RelationshipsWeek
Usando un dataset de Kaggle (+170 especies, ¡gracias S. Banerjee!) y tras una divertida limpieza de datos con rangos/unidades mixtas 
, este scatter plot log-log revela patrones.
Coloreamos por Dieta: 
Carnívoro(verde) 
Herbívoro(ocre) 
Omnívoro(azul).
Se ve la tendencia general (más grande = más longevo), pero los clústeres por dieta sugieren distintas **estrategias de historia de vida**. ¿Cómo gestionan su energía y longevidad según lo que comen? 
¡Una visualización para explorar la alometría y la diversidad ecológica!
#rstats #ggplot2 y mi nuevo tema #theme_week3_animals.
Código/Viz: https://t.ly/ehPiu
Und immer dienstags ab 18:15 Uhr widmet sich die Inhaberin der Gutenberg-Stiftungsprofessur, die Primatenforscherin und Kognitionswissenschaftlerin Julia Fischer von der Uni Göttingen, Fragen der #Evolution von Kommunikation, Intelligenz und Sozialverhalten bei #Primaten und den Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden zwischen #Affen und #Menschen. Offen für alle (die andere Reihe natürlich auch)!
Infos unter https://www.stiftung-jgsp.uni-mainz.de/
#Evolution #Neuroscience #Cognition - Crows recognize geometric regularity - "The crows exhibited a geometric regularity effect, showing better performance with shapes featuring right angles, parallel lines, or symmetry over more irregular shapes. This performance advantage did not require learning. Our findings suggest that geometric intuitions are not specific to humans but are deeply rooted in biological evolution." - Philipp Schmidbauer et al., Crows recognize geometric regularity.Sci. Adv.11,eadt3718(2025).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adt3718 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt3718
Empathy is the result of evolution.
Ancient jawbone from Taiwan belongs to a mysterious group of human ancestors, scientists say.
@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/OuM8-c
One had just lost a job because of a canceled govt grant; the other feared a similar fate if they went ahead w/the paper. Although both were legally in the #US, they worried they might lose their residency if their names appeared on a potentially *controversial* article.
The subject: #evolution.
ICYMI: Imagine seeing through 24 eyes—or catching movement faster than any human could. Professor Lars Schmitz's Wired #video explores the surprising visual capabilities across different species. 
From simple light patches to complex eye structures, #evolution crafts incredibly inventive ways of seeing the world.
Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/animal-kingdom-eyes-tour-tree-of-life-wired-video
Imagine seeing through 24 eyes—or catching movement faster than any human could. Professor Lars Schmitz's Wired #video explores the surprising visual capabilities across different species.
From simple light patches to complex eye structures, #evolution crafts incredibly inventive ways of seeing the world.
Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/animal-kingdom-eyes-tour-tree-of-life-wired-video
I have just skimmed the book 'Gathering Moss' by #RobinWallKimmerer (searched something for my moss podcast episode) and am amazed at how much you can take away from moss evolution for today's political situation. Evolution speaks much for diverse, resisting, and adaptive communities.
