Skull Modularity in Evolutionary Morphology
Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on morphological diversity in birds, Hawaiian honeycreepers and how data on skull mo...
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November 27, 2020
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Climate
July 17, 2017
Evolutionary Optimality and Plants
Professor of Biosphere and Climate Impacts Iain Colin Prentice on CO2 concentration in nature, photosynthetic ...
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biology
October 10, 2016
Evolution of Humans
Biologist Steve Jones on natural selection, chimpanzees, and Queen Victoria
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biology
August 25, 2016
Ant Wars
Zoologist and entomologist Sean O'Donnell on Army Ants, chemical weapons, and invasive species
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biology
August 24, 2016
Theory of Evolution
Biologist Steve Jones on Darwin, Lamarck, and the uneasy relationship between evolution and genetics
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biology
December 8, 2015
A complex animal from the beginning of animal life
New research sheds light on the evolution of complex animal groups, suggesting that they may have evolved earl...
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biology
December 5, 2015
Embryonic bird ankles, reverse evolution, and the ...
An evolutionary “throwback” seems to have occurred in birds, which resurrected an ancient, amphibian-like patt...
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biology
August 24, 2015
Allelic Architecture of Complex Traits
Geneticist Shamil Sunyaev on the difference between Mendelian and complex traits, linkage methods in genetics,...
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biology
August 20, 2015
Adaptability of Life to Extreme Environments
Astrobiologist Christopher Carr on archaea and bacteria, possibly habitable planets, and life on Mars
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biology
August 7, 2015
Animal nerve signal is an innate plant stress sign...
Plants respond to stress with a combination of chemical responses similar to those of animals, but using a sep...
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biology
July 14, 2015
Identifying Adaptive Mutations
Biologist Hopi Hoekstra on sand dunes of Nebraska, agouti signaling protein, and adaptation to the habitat
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biology
June 23, 2015
Evolution of Beak Shapes in Darwin’s Finches
Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on morphological changes among birds, transgenes, and laboratory experiments on chic...
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