'Like a video game with health points,' energy budgets explain evolutionary body size
Budgeting resources isn't just a problem for humans preparing a holiday dinner, or squirrels storing up nuts for the winter.
Budgeting resources isn't just a problem for humans preparing a holiday dinner, or squirrels storing up nuts for the winter.
Evolution
Dec 18, 2019
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The journal PNAS has recently published an article with participation by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) which refutes the similarities between the teeth of modern Asians and the ...
Archaeology
Dec 17, 2019
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In first-of-its-kind research, NOAA scientists and academic partners used 100 years of microscopic shells to show that the coastal waters off California are acidifying twice as fast as the global ocean average—with the ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2019
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What waddled on land but swam supremely in subtropical seas more than 60 million years ago, after the dinosaurs were wiped out on sea and land?
Archaeology
Dec 9, 2019
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Animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, before diversifying into 30 or 40 distinct anatomical designs. When and how animal ancestors made the transition from single-celled microbes to complex multicellular organisms ...
Archaeology
Nov 27, 2019
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As the world grapples with an extinction crisis, our large mammals are among the most endangered. These threatened species—rhinos, pandas, tigers, polar bears and the like—greatly influence their ecosystems. So what will ...
Archaeology
Nov 21, 2019
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Oysters once dominated the ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, for the Bay to return to full ecological health without restoring Crassostrea virginica to its glory days of the Chesapeake's ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2019
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Decades after farmland was abandoned, plant biodiversity and productivity struggle to recover, according to new University of Minnesota research.
Ecology
Nov 18, 2019
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For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that species extinctions have also always been ...
Ecology
Nov 13, 2019
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The discovery of a previously unknown species of pterosaur, which may have persisted as late as the Turonian period (90-93 million years ago), is reported in Scientific Reports this week. The fossil, which includes parts ...
Archaeology
Oct 3, 2019
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