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Is evolution predictable? Finding microbes' adaptation algorithms

May 21 - Seeded by evano
Source: news.com.com

"Associate professor Yousif Shamoo and two students recently conducted experiments on a microbe, G. stearothermophilus, to see how it adapted to different environmental circumstances.

science, news, evolution, dna, natural-selection, experiment, mutation, adaptation
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"Religious belief itself is an adaptation..."

Mar 21 - Seeded by fetachin
Source: salon.com

Sociobiology founder Edward O. Wilson explains why we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions, denies that "evolutionism" is a faith, and says that heaven, if it existed, would be hell.

science, religion, evolution, biology, sociology, belief, adaptation
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Human Evolution Trying to Catch Up to the Neolithic

Mar 7 - Seeded by Jason Godesky
Source: The New York Times

A report in the New York Times discusses recent evidence of human evolution since the Neolithic, as the human genome has tried to catch up with the massive changes introduced by the Agricultural Revolution.

science, evolution, human-evolution, neolithic, adaptation, agricultural-revolution
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Global Warming Fuels Speedy Evolution

Feb 23 - Seeded by Mars
Source: dsc.discovery.com

Don't look now, but your backyard is evolving. It's no joke. There's a growing body of evidence that evolution is no longer something only seen either in this year's flu virus or Cretaceous tyrannosaur bones.

science, evolution, global-warming, plants, adaptation, reptiles, climate-chage
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