Scientists have been puzzled by a series of traits... ...estral to Native Americans experienced the strong selection for V370A, an interpretation that differed from w... ...th, we were able to figure out when and where the selection happened. The next question we needed to address... ...e next question we nee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/02/Human-Milk-May-Solve-Ice-Age-Evolutionary-Mystery/The title sounds like one of Kipling’s &ldqu... ...s possibly the nastiest of all.The story is about natural selection and humans competing with each other to pass alon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/11/How-the-Woman-Got-Her-Period/Bt corn is a kind of corn that has been modified w... ...can corn crop. Still, nature finds a way: through natural selection , corn rootworms have developed a resistance to th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/19/Genetically-Engineered-Corn-Foiled-by-Insect-Evolution/[http://youtu.be/uo-BxHWtGNQ] (YouTube link)Alfred... ...nk)Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection , the mechanism that drives evolution. He and Char... ...of Darwin. But it was Wallace who first described natural selection , an idea that came to him as he suffered a malari...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/05/The-Animated-Life-of-AR-Wallace/[http://vimeo.com/59140833] (vimeo link)An increasingly frustrated narrator leads us through a nature documentary about useless animal species such as the cube fish and the inverted hedgehog that have no chance to surviv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/24/Doomed-a-Biological-Cartoon/In places where malaria is rampant, a common defense is to sleep under a insecticide-laden mosquito net. The nocturnal mosquito of the genus Anopheles can't penetrate the netting, and will die from the insecticide if the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/07/Mosquitoes-Turn-Midnight-Snack-into-Breakfast/Who needs composers when you've... ...where thousands of humans participate in the natural selection process: The DarwinTunes tracks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/19/darwintunes-evolution-of-music/Also nicotine! A study conducted at the Universi... ...es preferred the latter. The presumption is that natural selection has favored those plants that satisfy the desires...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/22/bees-prefer-flowers-with-caffeine/Research conducted by scholars at the University of Wroclaw in Poland suggests that tattoos and piercings add to a person's bodily symmetry and denote risk-taking behavior. This may increase the likelihood that a person...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/07/can-tattoos-and-body-piercings-make-you-more-likely-to-pass-on-your-genes/Most explanations of Darwinian evolution refer to... ...hers thrive in other types of cell. In each case, natural selection culls the least successful ones. The survivors pa...
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