Tag: convergent evolution
#4 of Our Top Stories of 2018: A First Human Couple? New Evidence and Arguments
A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible.
Ewert’s Dependency Graph Proposal: A Forest of Compositions
To help further explain this concept, I would like to introduce readers to my pet bunny, Daisy.
Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder
Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.
Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again
The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life.
Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design
Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive.