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The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology
...evolution has fine-tuned this electric sense. Electrostatics may turn out to be an evolutionary force in small creatures’ survival that helps them find food, migrate and infest other living things....
Insects Conquered a Watery Realm With Just Two New Genes
...what’s needed to provide a complete answer to how phenotypic evolution occurs. “The integrative, interdisciplinary nature of this demonstration is what’s striking here,” said Ehab Abouheif, an evolutionary developmental biologist...
A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life
...Other collective organisms such as slime molds must contend with evolutionary pressures both on the whole and on individuals. And in still larger systems like the African savanna, evolution shapes...
Cell by Cell, Scientists Map the Genetic Steps as Eggs Become Animals
...their expression programs over the course of evolution. The conservation of the proteins at the sequence level seems to have no connection to the conservation of their expression in evolution....
Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isn’t Genetically Complex
Jellyfish didn’t need novel genes to take an evolutionary leap in complexity. An overarching theme in the story of evolution, at least over the past half billion years or so,...
Giant Genetic Map Shows Life’s Hidden Links
...evolution. As beautiful as the bird’s-eye view of the cell is, this work goes beyond biological voyeurism. This information can tell us about the evolution of the cell and, potentially,...
Scientists Unveil New Inventory of Universe’s Dark Contents
...of evolution, are more complex and harder to glean information from than the cosmic microwave background, but according to experts, they will ultimately offer a richer picture of the universe’s...
Solution: ‘The DNA Computer Program’
...understand. Processes like evolutionary algorithms and artificial life have taught us that programs designed by evolution are extremely complicated and sometimes seem to defy logic, but they work. The decompilation...
Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses
...for evolution to play with. Evolution, Shepherd says, is the ultimate MacGyver, referring to the 1980s TV hero who could defuse a bomb with bubble gum and a paper clip....