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The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty
...a group of organisms, not just the most beautiful butterflies or birds, and discovered the general theory of evolution. Chemists classified all the elements, going beyond the easy bling of...
Random Search Wired Into Animals May Help Them Hunt
...that evolution may have equipped nervous systems to spontaneously generate a foundational movement pattern, a solution that works better than any other strategy for a blind search. The idea has...
Males Are the Taller Sex. Estrogen, Not Fights for Mates, May Be Why.
...evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Lethbridge who co-authored a 2016 review paper on the evolution of human height variation with Gert Stulp of the London School of Hygiene and...
A Digital Locksmith Has Decoded Biology’s Molecular Keys
...depends on the structure beneath a protein’s surface. “What evolution is probably optimizing for is precisely this induced fit,” said AlQuraishi. “What’s surprising about [MaSIF] is that even with this...
Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms
...synchronize can actually be harnessed by evolution to turn it into an interesting strategy?” Tarnita asked. Since evolution could potentially act on that process, “that might actually be really meaningful...
Egg Laying or Live Birth: How Evolution Chooses
...the chicken or the egg?” is relatively easy to answer as a question about the evolution of birth in animals. Egg laying almost certainly came before live birth; the armored...
Inside Deep Undersea Rocks, Life Thrives Without the Sun
...the microbes that inhabit it. It has also offered a glimpse into the very origin and evolution of life, both on this planet and possibly elsewhere in the universe. Life...
What Other Coronaviruses Tell Us About SARS-CoV-2
...bind effectively, making it harder to produce severe infections. Such evolution by deletion is actually a common feature of these viruses. A deletion of part of the spike gene and...
What Might Be Speeding Up the Universe’s Expansion?
...of radiation emitted shortly after the Big Bang. This radiation reveals the precise ingredients of the early universe. Cosmologists plug the ingredients into their model of cosmic evolution and run...