To evolve means to develop and achieve gradually. To devolve means to pass on, delegate or transfer duty or authority. The human race has an amazing capacity to learn. With learning can come development and achievement. The human race also…
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“Where” usually refers to a place, but can on occasion also refer to a time. As in the question: “Where did it all begin?” Each new road evolution takes has its own beginning, its own time and its own place,…
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In the biological world everything works as a complex web of interactions between many different systems. One of the key types of system is that of the negative feedback systems. In systems theory a negative feedback system is one in…
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No. And that’s what’s so brilliant about it! I remember very clearly, in one of my Zoology lectures, now so long ago, our lecturer trying to hammer into us this simple fact. The focus of his statement was slightly different,…
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First of all, let me say that the theory of evolution is widely accepted throughout the scientific establishment, and the taxonomic relationship between species is accepted, not only based on morphological data, or structure and appearance, but based on DNA…
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Bats, flying mammals, and those are what bats actually are. When one talks about bats, they often don’t realize that they are referring to a broad classification of creatures rather than a specific type. It is like saying carnivores, which…
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For students of science who are interested in how parasitic organisms came to be, this 15th Monograph in Robert May’s “Population Biology Series”, originally published in 1980, is an interesting and informative must-have classic for students of parasitology. * How…
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GET BACK IN THE MUD!Evolution soon will be outdated, when it has no more theories to come up with how, where, when, or why. But just think… ‘out of the slime came forth man. And that slither of slime found…
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Paleontologists Xiaoming Wang and Richard Tedford wrote the book (literally and figuratively) on the evolution of the taxonomic family Canidae; an evolutionary history that spans 40 million years. The taxon is comprised of dog-like creatures that range from the extinct,…
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The class Mammalia is so big and diverse that it is hard to get a grasp of how it evolved. From elephants to shrews, from anteaters to whales, the diversity of form is mind boggling. However if one looks at…
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