Mosaic Evolution Generates Patches Of Vivid Colors In The Lories

“How to balance the evolutionary demands between being extremely colorful and attractive to potential mates whilst also being camouflaged from predators?”

by @grrlscientist via #Substack 

#parrots #color #evolution #ecology #MateChoice #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/mosaic-evolution-generates-patches

I recommend this whole thread about Colossal's questionability, ethics and the company's dealings with the public and journalists. #DireWolf #deextinction #evolution #genetics #ecology #animals #science #genetics #ethics

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i4cn6hmf2bu54j6wozz2ckzb/post/3lmavprh4ic2p

The dire wolf returns from extinction after 10,000 years. #genetics #evolution #nature

https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/

last year's feature on the #evolution of #menopause in toothed #whales and humans is now in the #OpenArchives. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/04/menopausal-mammals.html #science #FreeAccess #cetaceans #marineBiology

Experiments in bacteria test the 50-year-old Ohno’s hypothesis that having duplicates of a gene (true for about 50% of them) allows evolution to accelerate. #EvoBio #Evolution
https://elifesciences.org/digests/97216/the-value-of-gene-duplication?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

our new paper divining into the molecular underpinning of sympatric ecotypes of the common #quail

http://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17740

described in this blog by Santi Montero

https://santiagomonteromendieta.github.io/portfolio/20250319_quails/

#evolution #biodiversity # ecology #MolecularEcology #science

Mosaic Evolution Generates Patches Of Vivid Colors In The Lories

“How to balance the evolutionary demands between being extremely colorful and attractive to potential mates whilst also being camouflaged from predators?”

by @grrlscientist via #Substack 

#parrots #color #evolution #ecology #MateChoice #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/mosaic-evolution-generates-patches

How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists

“The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.”

by @grrlscientist via #Substack

#frogs #FleaToad #amphibians #NewSpecies #SmallestVertebrates #evolution #ecology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-small-can-you-get-another-new

Separate but similar evolution of brain structures in intelligent birds and mammals:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals-20250407/

I have updated my essay #5 in the Transgressive Science Fiction series, "Evolution: Classical or Quantum?" with a section on Derek Künsken's Quantum Evolution series of books. I was unaware of them at the time, but they were brought to my attention since.
https://tinyurl.com/2vmcn88e

How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists

“The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.”

by @grrlscientist via #Substack

#frogs #FleaToad #amphibians #NewSpecies #SmallestVertebrates #evolution #ecology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-small-can-you-get-another-new

How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists

“The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#frogs #FleaToad #amphibians #NewSpecies #SmallestVertebrates #evolution #ecology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-small-can-you-get-another-new

Is eating Tasmanian farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of #evolution? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/07/is-eating-tasmanian-farmed-salmon-worth-snuffing-out-40m-years-of-evolution

Importance Score: 65 / 100

Early Human Evolution: Rainforest Habitation Dates Back 150,000 Years, Study Finds
New findings from a groundbreaking archaeological study ind...
More » https://newsflash.one/2025/04/06/archaeologists-stunned-by-discovery-of-human-relics-in-150000-year-old-rainforest/?feed_id=920321&_unique_id=67f2be5187ea9

Bonobos communicate in ways more similar to ours than previously thought. Mélissa Berthet and her colleagues studied a group of these primates and found first ever proof of non-trivial compositionality in non-human vocalizations.

#bonobo #chimpanzee #chimp #ape #primate #primates #primatology #nature #science #wildlife #communication #syntax #linguistics #evolution

https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/04/lidska-rec-neni-vyjimecna-nasi.html

If the exploitation of others were all that mattered, evolution should never have got into the empathy business. But it did, and the political and economic elites had better grasp that in a hurry.
-- Frans de Waal (Primatologist)

#Wisdom #Quotes #FransdeWaal #Empathy #Evolution #Politics

#Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Reading Material With Lunch, Etc – Getting Back To My Roots
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429270284 | Thornes, J. B., Brunsden, D. (1977). Geomorphology and time. London: Methuen
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I saw this book on another post - and so went and found a copy at a 2nd hand book shop…
Looking forward to lunches at work with a cup of tea and maybe a couple of rainy Sundays at home…
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#geomorphology #text #book #landforms #learning #refamiliarisation #readingforpleasure #framework #model #processes #geology #water #hydrology #weather #climate #erosion #time #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #temporal #qualitative #quantitative #change #stochastic #evolution

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Two second-hand copies of #PhysicalAnthropology books from Cambridge University Press: What #Teeth Reveal About Human #Evolution and Evaluating Evidence in Biological #Anthropology. Taschen had a sale on recently, so I bagged myself a copy of The Fantastic Worlds of #FrankFrazetta at less than half price
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #FantasyArt @bookstodon