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Where Did We Come From? The Origin and Evolution of Life' by Prof. Eugene Rosenberg and Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg begins with a detailed look at religious narratives of the origin of life.
If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.
Game theory and economics show how to steer evolution in a better direction Date: November 16, 2021 Source: PLOS Summary: Human behavior drives the evolution of biological organisms in ways that ...
Cultural Evolution Not the Same as Biological Evolution Evolution may take place at many different scales — and it may work differently in every one.
Ultimately, biological complexity is one of the most important things to come out of evolution. Things started simple. Then genes mutated, cells interacted with their environment, mitochondria ...
But, in the current controversy, discounting evolution as "only a theory" is more than a semantic debate. It's a political statement at the heart of the attack upon teaching evolution in science ...
The overselling of the theory of evolution, because of the incorporation of these later discoveries, may have done a grave disservice both to those two 19th-century scientists and to modern biology.
Theory suggests that spatial sorting by dispersal ability can generate evolutionarily accelerated range expansions. Using the bean beetleCallosobruchus maculatus, this study shows that evolution ...