Adaptive radiations represent rapid branching in the tree of life and are recognized as critical drivers of biodiversity. Studies on them is central to understand the mechanisms that drive speciation, diversification, and ...
Evolution
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In seahorses and pipefish, it is the male that gets pregnant and gives birth. Seahorse fathers incubate their developing embryos in a pouch located on their tail.
Plants & Animals
Sep 2, 2022
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Scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with colleagues from the U.S. and Australia, have succeeded in demonstrating the complexity of species evolution and evolutionary processes by studying the genomic ...
Evolution
Aug 11, 2022
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Australian Institute of Botanical Science researchers have investigated the hybridization, or crossing of species, of an undescribed eucalypt found in only a few small pockets of Sydney bushland.
Ecology
Jul 21, 2022
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Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events—and therefore largely unpredictable.
Plants & Animals
Jul 18, 2022
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Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has led a study published in the journal Intelligence on how attention evolved in the human genus, which analyzes ...
Archaeology
Jun 30, 2022
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Birds of a feather flock together, but when guppies gather, they get really bad worms.
Evolution
Jun 15, 2022
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The second century Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician Claudius Ptolemy had a grand ambition. Hoping to make sense of the motion of stars and the paths of planets, he published a magisterial treatise on the subject, ...
Evolution
Jun 6, 2022
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Oxygen levels in the atmosphere during the mid-Proterozoic—about 1.4 billion years ago—were higher than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers who looked at oxygen combined with sulfur to ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2022
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A new study led by Monash University biologists has challenged the traditional thinking around parental sugar intake and offspring fitness with some unexpected results.
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2022
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