Isn’t it incredible to live on the same planet where this magnificent, ancient shark once grew up to 65 ft (20m)? 🦈
The massive megalodon swam Earth’s ocean for millions of years.
Funny how many folks mistakenly believe humans are some kind of pinnacle of #evolution. We literally just arrived a few hundred thousand years ago. #science#history
I understand that not self-fertilizing is an adaptive benefit for plants (& all living organisms) but I don't have a scenario that shows how the benefit works.
Given a population w/genetic variations some tiny percentage of which are beneficial in the habitat, why is it such a huge boost to survival to mix your genes?
It is precisely because beneficial adaptations are rare? If beneficial mutations were common would self cloning and fertilizing. be more common? #question#biology#evolution
#Thunderbird’s UI is really growing on me. I quite like the tabbed view. And I wonder how I have coped so long with #Evolution’s lack of full conversation view. (There’s loads I love about Evolution; if it has that one feature, I doubt I would have experimented with Thunderbird.)
So, yes, a successful experiment so far.
I need to find a way to export just Thunderbird profile settings and not messages, to help set up other machines.
#Cats first worked their way into human hearts thousands of years ago when the African wildcat realized the evolutionary advantage of sticking close to humans.
And if you have a cat, this comes to no surprise:
They continue to be master manipulators doing things like changing their purrs and “meow” to curry human favor.
Interesting site.
It is already a fairly known viral fact, that mammals like humans are more closely related to bony fishes (like the perch) than bony fishes are to sharks. I was however surprised to find, that lampreys are even more distant from sharks than bony fish! http://timetree.org/ #evolution
I have a #CalDAV server running on my NAS. I want to access the calendars on it from #GNOME Calendar. How to achieve this? I haven't found anything neither in Calendar itself nor in "Online Accounts" section in the Settings.
I found an old blog post from 2016 mentioning having to install #Evolution to do this:
Loved how Nidhal Guessoum quickly shuts down a lame attempt by a religious scholar to appropriate Bjorn Kurtén's #creationist friendly title "Not from the Apes", of which he might have only read the title.
... also interesting was that surveys show that Americans and Saudis without college degrees are equally skeptical of the theory, while more educated Saudis than Americans reject it.
Thought it'd be a nice anecdote to start off a discussion about Islam's view of #evolution through the perspective of a couple of medieval scholars for a paper I need to write....
Nidhal Guessoum. 2010. “Islam and Evolution (Human and Biological).” In Islam’s Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science, 275-276. Bloomsbury Publishing.
We think this attack on understanding #humanorigins by Stefanos #Geroulanos is junk. Almost everything about it is wrong.
The idea that our bodies, minds and emotions are only affected by the last 5000 years is profoundly stupid -- once again social scientists trying to pretend #evolution doesn't exist (Am looking at #Graeber/Wengrow there).
Take this bit 🤦:
'But in reality, our bodies, our economic systems, our social relations, our family relations, and our politics have very little to do with this longer history [=species life] and a great deal to do with the much shorter one [=farming/patriarchy]'
This is a real mashup: our bodies, minds, hearts and souls have been shaped through thousands on thousands of generations of egalitarian nomadic lifestyle -- we need to know about that to challenge the constraints of heinous inequality in emerging class societies. Yes these shifted gender, economic and social relations of the past 5000 years. But we don't lose the cognitive and emotional skill set of being human overnight, or even in a few thousand years of warfare and patriarchy..
Nice, even-handed post by @yoginho on the assembly theory paper:
"Wouldn't it be nice if [...] authors would see their role as guides on our journey through such unknown conceptual landscapes? Instead, academic publishing has become a shameless swamp of self-promotion. The system is to blame, at least in part, but we cannot shirk our own responsibility as authors. This paper is a prime example of what is happening all over the place."
OC What do you people think the next step after internet could be?
Before internet we had the telephone to communicate. What do you people think could be the next step of that?