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The Woman Who Stared at Wasps
...fascinated scientists for more than a century because they pose an evolutionary conundrum. Darwin himself saw their way of life as a challenge to his ideas. The theory of evolution...
Life’s Secrets Sought in a Snowflake
...evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Scientists are gaining insight into the process by re-creating the evolution of multicellularity in the lab. Using an approach known as...
Solution: ‘Creating Art With Mathematics’
...puzzles. When we encounter situations that require a lot of representational complexity in our brains, such as a disordered scene or a messy problem, we are programmed by evolution to...
Mongrel Microbe Tests Story of Complex Life
...organisms two billion years ago led to cells with complex internal features. “A single event in four billion years of evolution sculpted the whole future evolution of eukaryotes — that’s...
Networks Untangle Malaria’s Deadly Shuffle
...Research Council, The Gambia Unit, in Fajara. Caroline Buckee set out to track the evolutionary history of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite. New evidence from Larremore and his collaborators, however,...
An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships
...diversity can be good or bad. An evolutionary perspective might provide some balance. We need to understand evolutionary processes at different levels, such as between a host and its microbes,...
Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity
...only their positions, but also their velocities and their masses. Armed with that information, classical mechanics predicts the system’s future evolution completely. Classical mechanics, given its broader concept of physical...
A Life in Games
...system is so transparent that there should be no surprises at all,” Eno said, “but in fact there are plenty: The complexity and ‘organic-ness’ of the evolution of the dot...
How Mutant Viral Swarms Spread Disease
...closely related viruses. This viral genetic jumble has given Marco Vignuzzi, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, a way to predict the future evolution of RNA viruses like...