Month: September 2020

An evolutionary anthropologist tackles the mystery of the butt

Source: How did human butts evolve to look that way?

  For about half of Earth’s 4.6 billion-year existence, the atmosphere contained only carbon dioxide and nitrogen, with no oxygen. But this changed when cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, started producing the first oxygen using nitrogenase, which led to the Great Oxidation Event, fueling the evolution of life on Earth. Rust Discovered at Moon’s […]

Source: Emergence of Life –“Played an Important Role on Evolution of the Moon” | The Daily Galaxy

Source: Reviewing research about the evolution of complex cognition in birds

Source: Teaching evolutionary theory to artificial intelligence reveals cancer’s life history

Recent major surveys show that reductions in genomic complexity — including the loss of key genes — have successfully shaped the evolution of life throughout history.

Source: By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity | Quanta Magazine

Source: Excitable cells: Tracking the evolution of electrical signalling in plants

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Source: An exchange on Bennett, evolution, and WHEE – The Gurdjieff Con

Eight years of research on H5N1 had convinced him that this cunning little Darwinian demon was capable of ecocide—the wiping out of entire species. –Kennedy Shortridge, microbiologist, University of Hong Kong It was bad enough when, beginning in March, US President Donald J. Trump repeatedly referred to Covid-19 as “the Chinese virus” in speeches, insulting More

Source: The Age of Synthetic Biology: Start the War Games! – CounterPunch.org

A seismic shift is under way. Against the backdrop of rising temperatures, collapsing ecosystems, and the threat of species extinction, technologies like AI and robotics are poised to transform the global order. But what will this future look like?

Source: Is The Venus Project The Next Stage In Human Evolution?