Month: September 2021

Toxic microbial blooms thrived during the Great Dying, the most severe extinction in Earth’s history, and they are proliferating again due to human activity.

Source: A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is on the Rise, Scientists Say

Named Uchuu, or Japanese for “outer space,” the simulation covers 13.8 billion years and will help scientists study how dark matter drives cosmic evolution.

Source: The Biggest Simulation of the Universe Yet Stretches Back to the Big Bang

Research from the Milner Center for Evolution suggests modern snakes evolved from a handful of ancestors that survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. A new study suggests that all living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped out the d

Source: All Living Snakes Evolved From a Few Survivors of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

A Stanford-led study reveals that rather than evolving gradually over hundreds of millions of years, land plants underwent major diversification in two dramatic bursts, 250 million years apart. The first occurred early in plant history, giving rise to the development of seeds, and the second took pl

Source: Plants Didn’t Evolve Gradually – They Evolved Complexity in Two Dramatic Bursts 250-Million-Years Apart

A painstaking study of wing morphology shows both the striking uniformity of individuals in a species and a subtle pattern of linked variations that evolution can exploit.

Source: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit Fly Wings Hints at Evolution’s Limits | Quanta Magazine

The current pandemic in the US is a puzzle in the sphere of vaccination. Tens of millions refuse vaccination in what is seen as irrationalism. So it is, but consider the issue of evolution. The the…

Source: Pandemic, science, vaccination, Darwinism and the right: are scientists hopeless idiots or what? From suspicion of Darwinism to suspicions of scientists to suspicions of vaccines… – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Similar to proteins, RNA also folds into complicated 3D structures. The difference is that we comparatively know so little about these molecules.

Source: Deep Learning Is Tackling Another Core Biology Mystery: RNA Structure

This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth.

Source: Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis” | Evolution News

A new linguistic study sheds light on the nature of languages spoken before the written period, using computational modeling to reconstruct the grammar of the 6500-7000 year-old Proto-Indo-European language.

Source: Exploring the past: Computational models shed new light on the evolution of prehistoric languages — ScienceDaily

This article is typical of the way ‘evolution’ is taken as implying natural selection, but in fact the article never mentions the issue.

Progress!

Source: More Americans Are Finally Coming Around to Accepting The Science of Evolution