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The arm bones of a dolphin match the arm bones of a human – a case of homology. Dolphin ancestors were once land-dwelling mammals. Even though they look very fish-like today, they still contain remnants of …More A Little Give and Take ...
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Today there are some 100,000 registered hybrid orchids, most of them the offspring of improbable marriages among far-flung plants arranged by, and literally inconceivable without, us. Not that any of this was ever in the orchid's plan. In evolution there is no plan, of course, only ...
Their contributions serve even today as an important baseline to take up holistic approach in documenting the longhorn beetles occurring in India. This review focuses on common biology, ecology and significance of longhorn beetles with special emphasis on their economic importance. 2. General biology ...
In case anyone stumbles onto this page today, here’s a festive Christmas lichen (Cryptothecia rubrocincta) that I photographed several years ago in Myakka River State Park, Florida. The red projections in the middle are isidia, vegetative outgrowths that can break off and form new lichens...
While stakeholders consider communication among themselves and improving the education of innovators in the field, the most important ethical consider- ation will be how to inform the public of the real-time science that is happening today, how it can affect their lives, and what role they can ...
authored and coauthored several college-level biology textbooks and popular science books. She won the Russell L. Cecil Award for magazine writing. Ms. Hopson's news and feature articles have appeared in publications such as Science News, Smithsonian, Newsweek, Psychology Today, and Science Digest...
he benefits of interdisciplinary collaborations and the need for researchers to read and think broadly have become truisms of today's scientific world. In this special issue of , as well as in 's online sites, our keen-sighted contributors report on gleanings from their travels through the ...
“ethnicity” in academia, along with misrepresentations of the genetic similarity between individuals. Many of the concepts in population genetics today are problematic. Coop’s eloquent critique of genetic ancestry groups is but one example.The concept of admixture is also rooted in racism and ...