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The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes
...she said. Ditching energy-expensive traits, or “reductive evolution,” is a common theme in parasites, Meyer noted. And losing this particular suite of proteins might have additional benefits. Because complex I...
The New History of the Milky Way
...mapped the movement of just thousands. The data brought a previously static swath of the galaxy to life. “Gaia started a new revolution,” said Federico Sestito, an astronomer at the...
Catherine Dulac Finds Brain Circuitry Behind Sex-Specific Behaviors
...do not have this organ for sensing pheromones. However, the areas of the brain controlling essential behaviors are thought to be conserved in evolution in all vertebrates, particularly the parts...
How Neutral Theory Altered Ideas About Biodiversity
...College London. Kimura’s neutral theory of molecular evolution sparked debate because it seemed to water down the influence of selection. But the genomics revolution of the late 20th century and...
A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics
...— so much so, in fact, that they reverse the quantum evolution of the entire system. They undo the friend’s measurement, erase the friend’s memory, and restore the particle to...
New Fish Data Reveal How Evolutionary Bursts Create Species
...determines biological diversity has pestered evolutionary biologists ever since Wallace and Darwin came up with their theory of evolution,” Salzburger said. The new study doesn’t provide conclusive answers, but it...
Did Viruses Create the Nucleus? The Answer May Be Near.
...And a truly persuasive origin story must also explain why the nucleus exists at all — what evolutionary pressures pushed those ancient cells to wall up their genomes. For most...
Contemplating the End of Physics
...of physics they will have to obey. But all of this is now changing. Nature’s agonizingly slow process of discovery, driven by cosmological and biological evolution on time scales of...
Searching Symbols for the Rules of Change
...has focused on understanding dynamical systems. Could you explain what those are? I’m thinking about abstract systems and studying their evolution to understand what kind of predictions can be made...