The Long Game
James McInerneyWhy Evolution Must Gamble To Avoid Extinction
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Drift and Luck
In 1968, a Japanese geneticist named Motoo Kimura published a paper that changed how every evolutionary biologist thought about evolution. It was written in the language of population genetics, which is to say it was full of equations, and...
The Invisible Groundwork
If I visited Earth three billion years ago, I’m pretty sure I would have been disappointed.
I would have found water in the form of a warm ocean under a hazy sky. The atmosphere would have been a mix of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and methane...
Good enough
There is a nerve in your neck called the recurrent laryngeal nerve, and it connects your brain to your larynx, which is your voice box, so you can speak, swallow, and do all those things that a throat needs to do. As humans, the brain and t...
Genomes are models of the world
In Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould asked what would happen if you could rewind the tape of evolution and let it run again (Gould, 1989). His answer was that you would get something different every time. The history of life was driven by s...
Evolution's Downward Ratchet
Something we don’t talk about very often is the fact that a species doesn’t usually die out because it is incapable of adapting. It dies out because it runs out of time.
Now, this for sure sounds like a paradox because evolution is suppose...
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