Through the years, biologists have seen a drop in the sea turtle population in Papua New Guinea. Until today, the sea turtles are under threat from locals who eat their eggs and meat. Ocean pollution also plays a huge factor in the survival rate. In the face of climate change and human...
Biologists suggest that 380 trillion viruses are living on and within your body right now. These viruses are collectively known as the human virome (病毒组). Some can cause illness, but many simply coexist with you.It appears that our viromes begin to accumulate when we are born. Studies ...
most biologists have been reluctant to use those words, mindful of a principle of evolution that says ‘evolution cannot run backwards’. But as more and more examples come to light and modern genetics enters the scene, that principle is having to be rewritten. Not...
原文中说:“Fly Away Home was a huge hit with us biologists,” Mr. Fritz said, recalling the 1996 movie in which characters lead the migration of orphaned Canada geese in a hang glider.” 这体现了该电影对 Fritz 的影响,他们利用类似的方法来引导朱...
Now that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out, biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds. Last year was an important turning point: conservationists founded the World Parrot Trust, based at Hayle in Cornwall, ...
Evolution isn’t supposed to run backwards - yet an increasing number of examples show that it does and that it can sometimes represent the future of a species.The description of any animal as an ‘evolutionary throwback’ is controversial. For the better part of a century, most biologists ...
In this book, I hope to build upon what Cheng and the other scientists have revealed and make the case that the resistance to progress felt by primatologists, physicists, biologists, mathematicians, and experts in a variety of fields is not always an exercise of reasonable caution. I realize...
Most people are referring to this phenomenon when they talk about “muscle memory”. They think the secret to learning a skill is to do it over and over again until they have developed muscle memory. But when biologists and neuroscientists (神经学家) study it, they mean at least two ...
.Early 20th-century biologists came to a similar conclusion, though they qualified it in terms of probability, stating that there is no reason why evolution cannot run backwards—it is just very unlikely.And so the idea of irreversibility in evolution stuck and came to be known as ‘Dollo’...
Biologists offer a theory about this primal impulse to clean out every drawer and closet in the house at spring’s first light, which has to do with melatonin, the sleepytime hormone our bodies produce when it’s dark. When spring’s light comes, the melatonin declines, and suddenly we ar...