Daryl76679

joined 3 years ago
sorted by: new top controversial old
35
Microbes that gave rise to all plants and animals became multicellular 1.6 billion years ago, tiny fossils reveal (www.science.org)
1
Seaweed 'could survive nuclear war, avert famine,' says new study (phys.org)
1
We’ve never understood how hunger works. That might be about to change. (www.technologyreview.com)
29
We’ve never understood how hunger works. That might be about to change. (www.technologyreview.com)
48
A mystery disease hit South Africa's pine trees 40 years ago: New DNA technology has found the killer (phys.org)
119
EFF Asks Court to Uphold Federal Law That Protects Online Video Viewers’ Privacy and Free Expression (www.eff.org)
35
Some crustaceans have evolved a way to make silk (www.science.org)
7
Noninvasive technique reveals how cells’ gene expression changes over time (news.mit.edu)
21
Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don't know why—but finding out could change the way we grow things (phys.org)
114
EFF Unveils Its New Street Level Surveillance Hub (www.eff.org)
20
How a Parasitic Worm Forces Praying Mantises to Drown Themselves (www.scientificamerican.com)
16
Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox. | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Daryl76679@lemmy.ml to c/biology@mander.xyz
0 comments fedilink
 

To Hendry, the paradox of stasis was never a paradox at all. The issue, he said, was that biologists assumed that long-term stasis was the result of short-term stability. Throw out that assumption, and the paradox disappears. “The paradox is illusory,” he said. “Evolutionary biologists like to come up with things and call them paradoxes.”

view more: ‹ prev next ›