Researchers find mathematical structure in biological complexity
What is and is not possible for natural evolution may be explained using models and calculations from theoretical physics, say researchers in Japan.
General Physics
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Will humans go extinct? For all the existential threats, we'll likely be here for a very long time
Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9%, are extinct.
Evolution
May 6, 2020
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Learning from nature's bounty: New libraries for drug discovery
Natural products, or their close derivatives, make some of our most potent medicines, among which macrocycles with their large carbon-rich ring systems are one class. The size and complexity of macrocycles has made it difficult ...
Biochemistry
Jun 11, 2019
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Why humans (or something very similar) may have been destined to walk the Earth
What would happen if the hands of time were turned back to an arbitrary point in our evolutionary history and we restarted the clock? American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould proposed this famous thought experiment in the ...
Evolution
Jun 6, 2019
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It's time we stopped human evolution, geneticist claims
Measles cases in the US have hit a 25-year high, with 78 new infections in the past week alone. In a sign of the times, a cruise ship with hundreds of Scientologists on board was quarantined in St Lucia after one passenger ...
Evolution
May 6, 2019
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Evolution: How the theory is inspiring a new way of understanding language
Words are often seen as the building blocks of languages. But as children we don't learn lists of words like we might in a school language class. We learn longer strings of sounds and break them up into words as we grow up. ...
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2019
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Human evolution is still happening – possibly faster than ever
Modern medicine's ability to keep us alive makes it tempting to think human evolution may have stopped. Better healthcare disrupts a key driving force of evolution by keeping some people alive longer, making them more likely ...
Evolution
Nov 14, 2018
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Guide to the classics: Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (originally published in 1859) shares a deplorable fate with many other classics: it is known to everyone, yet rarely read.
Evolution
May 31, 2018
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Would stepping on the first butterfly really change the history of evolution?
Martha Jones: It's like in those films: if you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race.
Evolution
Mar 29, 2018
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The conflict between males and females could replace the evolution of new species
New research shows that males and females of the same species can evolve to be so different that they prevent other species from evolving or colonising habitats, challenging long-held theories on the way natural selection ...
Evolution
Feb 21, 2018
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