Sociobiology is the “systematic study of the biological basis of all forms of social behaviour including sexual and parental behaviour, in all kinds of organisms, including humans”1. It stems from earlier evolutionary theories such as Darwinism. This theory has been…
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Psilotum, more commonly known as whisk ferns due to the nature of their appearance and their use in the making of brooms in the past, is a genus of fern-like vascular plants. This “vascular” description implies that the plants that…
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The Tasmanian darner is a member of the dragonfly family. It lives in Tasmanian, Australia. It gets its name from the appearance of the female’s abdomen. It looks like a sewing needle. Hawkers is another name for Tasmanian darners. Females…
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Frogs are amphibians and live part of their life in water and part of their life on land. They are coldblooded animals, and therefore their body temperature is the same as the temperature of their surroundings. Frogs need water, but…
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Robocilia is a manmade cilia and a tool for studying embryonic development. The cilia is a mix of window caulking and copolymers pulled into filaments. Natural cilia are hair-like particles that give movement to organisms. This is an early scientific…
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Louis Pasteur is recognized around the world as the man whose discoveries have most affected the practice of medicine. He discovered and identified many germs which cause disease. He invented the process of pasteurization, and developed vaccines for tetanus, tuberculosis,…
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“I am turned into a sort of a machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.” That’s how Charles Darwin had spent time proving that humans and some animals evolved. He also proved that certain species adapt due to how…
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“There must be something special, which causes dogs to howl in the moonlight, in that remarkable and melancholy manner called baying.” (Charles Darwin) For many people, Charles Darwin represents the beginning of the end of their comfortable notions of reality. …
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Darwin’s Origin of Species was published on November 24, 1859. In his work, whose full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin theorized that organisms gradually – gradually as in thousands or even millions of…
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Using DNA evidence, migration patterns, measurements of reforestation after an ice age, and calculations of planetary warming, scientists have deduced that the mysterious disappearance of the Woolly Mammoths about 4,000 years ago was chiefly due to environmental changes. DNA record…
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