Could human's ability to mimic the sounds of other animals predate the development of language/speech? #evolution #biology
Read my piece, "#Darwin and #Mystery of the #Fuegian #Dog" https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/07/28/darwin-and-mystery-of-the-fuegian-dog/ #Chile #TierraDelFuego #dogs #pets #canid #canids #evolution #science #domestication #fox #foxes #indigenous #Yagan #Selknam #PuntaArenas #Patagonia #Tehuelche
Wu & Adams analyse WGS and RNAseq data of wild Populus trichocarpa trees, providing insights into the extent, characteristics, and diversity of CNVs in wild populations and their effects of gene expression.
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf136
Ishii et al. identify candidate genes involved in the evolutionary acquisition or maintenance of symbiosis in Symbiodinium, a dinoflagellate symbiont of corals.
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf133
Geonoma undata - a palm tree native to the Americas - constitutes a hyper-cryptic radiation. Webster et al. genotyped 156 individuals, showing how multiple evolutionary forces contribute to genetic differentiation within the Northern Andes.
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf130
Policarpo et al. analyse 535 genomes to study opsin evolution across ray-finned fishes. Visual opsins are more prone to duplications and losses than nonvisual opsins; fish that rely on electroreception show a reduction in both opsin types.
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf129
A fascinating preprint investigating the 'mechanical morphogenesis' -- the complex shapes generated by growth and expansion of #brains. This compares 70 species of New World vs Old World #monkeys. As Katja Heuer @k4tj4 asks: 'To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape?'
Complex shape figures as a 3rd major factor along with genetic inheritance and experience.
Conferences That Work continually evolve. That's why I published and then updated a free supplement to my first book on meeting design.
The Light Eaters
How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
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by Zoë Schlanger
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#Botany #Intelligence #Life #Evolution #Science #Plants #Books #Nature #BookSky
The Light Eaters: How the Unse...
Musik: Warum gibt es sie überhaupt?
Die Musik hat Evolutionspsychologen ratlos gemacht: Unser Gehirn ist offenbar darauf angelegt, Musik zu genießen oder gar hervorzubringen. Diese Fähigkeit scheint genetisch angelegt zu sein. Doch wozu brauchen wir sie? Von Gábor Paál.
My Dinosaur,
A breakfast guest..
By a quirk of evolution, I am not on the menu....Today.
Steller’s Jay
Fujifilm X-H1 | Fujifilm 50-230mm OIS II
July 26, 2025
Time for neglected #Tehuelche #history
https://theconversation.com/after-160-years-of-welsh-settlement-in-patagonia-indigenous-voices-are-finally-being-heard-261700
My take here
https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/02/27/darwin-and-cultural-genocide-in-argentina/ #Darwin #evolution #science #welsh #argentina #chubut #genocide #indigenous
Reading War of the Worlds at a young age ruined most alien science fiction for me. Now I'm always like, "But the bacteria! The viruses! They've had no chance to evolve resistance!"
Let’s give a shoutout to #evolution for not giving wings to snakes.
Neanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots, scientists say https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/25/neanderthals-feasted-maggots-science-nutrition #Neanderthals #Anthropology #Archaeology #Evolution #Science #Biology
Friday, July 25, 2025
Over 23,000 civilians, 113 children trapped in active combat zones in Donetsk Oblast — Russian glide bombs strike Kharkiv residential high-rise building, injuring at least 41 — Marjorie Taylor Greene is spreading lies about Ukraine’s protests. Russia is taking note — Georgian-Ukrainian music festival ICKPA returns to Kyiv amid shared resistance to Russian imperialism … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/friday-july-25-2025/
New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryote-Wide Distribution of a Family of Longin Domain-Containing GAP Complexes for Small GTPases https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tra.70016 by Anna Novák Vanclová et al.
The Evolution of Imperfection: The Science of Why we Aren’t and Can’t Be Perfect by Laurence D. Hurst, 2025
How understanding our genetic imperfections can change our view of evolution and enrich what it means to be human.
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#books
#nonfiction
#genetics
#evolution
#imperfection