Blogs about: Convergent Evolution
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Public talk at Science Festival: Is evolution predictable?
On Wednesday 23rd March Professor Simon Conway Morris, co-ordinator of the Map of Life, gave a public evening talk on convergent evolution entitled “Is evolution predictable?“. The talk wa… more →
Map of Life
The Echolocation Gene
wrote 2 weeks ago: By Sophie Wang (Pomona College) and Arthur Levine (Pitzer College) [edited by Lars Schmitz, as part … more →
Electric fishes
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Electricity. It’s hard to imagine modern life without the stuff. It heats, cools, and lights u … more →
Timing the Rise of a Weakly-Electric Sense
wrote 3 weeks ago: By Jesse Osborn (Scripps College) and Hillary Bruegl (Scripps College) [edited by Lars Schmitz, as p … more →
The mole that isn't
wrote 3 weeks ago: Here’s a (non-technical) post I wrote for the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology for their … more →
Real-life species that could (and should!) be Pokémon – Part 2 [Em]
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wrote 2 months ago: Hey! Last post I mentioned three critters which I’d have loved to see adapted into the Pokémon unive … more →
Squid's Don't Have Lids
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wrote 2 months ago: Human Eye Compared To Squid Eye Squids and humans have little in common. Indeed, our last common an … more →
Metatherians (Part 1 of 2): Extinct Megafauna
wrote 2 months ago: Marsupials. The immediate association most people have with the term ‘marsupial’ is that … more →
Papers of the Week: 19.02 - 24.02.2013
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wrote 2 months ago: Your papers for the week. [OA] indicates open access. Feel free to request an in-depth look at any o … more →
Randomized Hough Transform
wrote 3 months ago: The Hough transform can be used to extract shapes from images. As an example, consider a binary imag … more →
Why the Catholic Church is quackers on natural law and same sex marriage
wrote 4 months ago: Cardinal Francis George, a Chicago-based Catholic bishop, may have had a natural order in mind when … more →
Top Research of 2012: Evolution
wrote 4 months ago: Jump to: Arthropods; Botany; Developmental Biology; Ecology; Environmental; Geology; Historical Geol … more →
Most Interesting Papers of the Week
wrote 5 months ago: Just because it’s 2012 in review time, doesn’t mean regularly-scheduled posts won’ … more →
Convergent Evolution: a convenient twist to an old lie
wrote 5 months ago: I don’t believe that when Charles Darwin wrote his famous book on evolution, he had any idea t … more →
Convergent Evolution VS. Macroevolution
wrote 5 months ago: The “Tree of Life,” as pictured here, is thought to help us determine the evolutionary l … more →
Naturalism and evolution
wrote 5 months ago: Evolution (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) A short one. If naturalism is true we got here through milli … more →
Only so many ways
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wrote 5 months ago: In a way, the limitations of evolution are more interesting to me than its possibilities. It’s … more →
Convergent evolution
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wrote 5 months ago: I was hunting around for some blogging ideas recently when I came across this post by Wintery Knight … more →
Cornelius Hunter struggles to understand convergent evolution
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wrote 6 months ago: I was hunting around for some blogging ideas recently when I came across this post by Wintery Knight … more →
Convergent Evolution Is Secular Miracles
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wrote 6 months ago: As science gets better so does increasing the complexity in evolution! Imagine a blind, aimless proc … more →
