Month: March 2022

Methane is a potential sign of life that the James Webb Space Telescope can readily detect on other worlds, reports a new study.

Source: Scientists Are Preparing for Our Best Shot Yet at Identifying Alien Life

Source: What? Paper on human mutation admits to “fundamentally challenging” neo-Darwinism? – Uncommon Descent

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Source: Modern humans began to evolve, and almost immediately split into three groups – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

A gesture as simple as holding the violin is intimately connected to our biology.

Source: Humans Evolved to Play Music | WIRED

“Help our bees!” “Save our pollinators!” As long as we consider them ours, can we save them? Here are four thoughts about protecting bees for bees’ sake.

Source: Bees in the Anthropocene: Four Thoughts – CounterPunch.org

Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress.

Source: Animation Demonstrates Design in Topoisomerase | Evolution News

These coordinated movements of a flock of starlings follow no plan or leader. Scientists used to think the animals must communicate via ESP to create these fast-moving blobs.

Source: Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together in the sky? A biologist explains the science of murmurations

Bashanosaurus is thought to have lived about 168m years ago, according to study of fossils found in China

Source: Early stegosaur fossils may shed light on stegosaurus evolution | Dinosaurs | The Guardian

New research sheds light on why predators don’t evolve to become so aggressive that they eat all their prey – and then go extinct themselves.

Source: Animals have evolved to avoid overexploiting their resources – can humans do the same?

Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution.

Source: Debunked Transitional Fossils: The Iceberg’s Tip | Evolution News