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Faster Evolution on a Warmer Earth
...mutations — errors in the genetic code. These errors provide the raw material for natural selection and evolution. Sometimes simple chance produces a helpful mutation — one that enables its...
A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order
...eagles, for instance, to spot mice from a mile high), and his lab studies the evolutionary adaptations that make this so. Many of these attributes are believed to have been...
New Lizard Shows Evolution’s Predictability
The anole lizards that dot many islands of the Caribbean are a natural evolutionary experiment. Many species of anole exist, and, in a striking pattern, they seem to have evolved...
LIGO Reports Second Black-Hole Merger
...to gather statistics about the mysterious, invisible black holes that pervade the universe and influence the evolution of galaxies and the cosmos as a whole. Duncan Brown, LIGO member and...
New Support for Alternative Quantum View
...a cloud of probabilities described by a mathematical structure known as a wave function. The wave function, meanwhile, evolves over time, its evolution governed by precise rules codified in something...
Entanglement Made Simple
...to assign unique, independent states to several q-ons. Similar considerations apply to the evolution of a single q-on in time. We say we have “entangled histories” when it is impossible...
The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality
...perceptions is nothing like reality. What’s more, he says, we have evolution itself to thank for this magnificent illusion, as it maximizes evolutionary fitness by driving truth to extinction. Getting...
Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles
...said. “But you could say the same thing about evolution, right? There’s a limited number of fossils, and yet we have a pretty good idea of what happened, and it’s...
In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery
...a cellular chassis that scientists can build on. Researchers can embellish the genome to create new organisms, which could help them to better understand stages of evolution lost to time....