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Unexpected ‘Germline’ Plant Cells May Shield New Generations
...proof. Laurence Hurst, an evolutionary geneticist at the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath, also counsels caution because it’s hard to compare mutation rates across groups with...
The Universal Law That Aims Time’s Arrow
...evolution should have exhibited fractal-like universal scaling. “You find that when this big condensate decayed into the particles that we observe today, that this process can be very elegantly described...
Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
...evolution gets close to the breakup point, the theoretical objects might even have something interesting to say about quantum gravity itself, Pretorius suggests. Beyond theoretical black strings, the universe is...
Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
...classical physics — position and speed, say — are selected from a menu of quantum possibilities in a process loosely analogous to natural selection in evolution: The properties that survive...
Scientists Debate the Origin of Cell Types in the First Animals
...data is demonstrating that it’s not like that,” said Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, an evolutionary biologist at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona. The first complication came in 2008, when a...
Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures
...with images that had been “painted” with irrelevant textures. The systems’ performance improved, a result that may hold clues about the evolution of our own vision. Courtesy of Robert Geirhos...
How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
...as seen from the inside. Quanta Magazine spoke with Smolin about his approach to cosmology and quantum mechanics, which he details in his recent book, Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution. The interview...
The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries
...imagine it any other way. Clearly, some aspects of nature — like the orbits of the planets — are the result of history and accident, not symmetry. Biological evolution is...
What’s in a Name? Taxonomy Problems Vex Biologists
...Even if phyla were defined on the basis of evolutionary timing, deciding which point in the evolutionary process to use would still be arbitrary and anthropogenic. “If you want to...