Get PhyloPic posters and Pocket Phylogenies as reward add-ons for backing the PALEOCENE #4 crowdfunding campaign by @keeseycomics! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book/posts/3905852 #sciart #scicomm #biology #evolution #evolutionarybiology #paleoart #deeptime #prehistoric #silhouette

You can now get @phylopic posters and Pocket Phylogenies as reward add-ons for backing the PALEOCENE #4 campaign! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book/posts/3905852 #sciart #paleoart #scicomm #evolution #evolutionarybiology

Only 11 days left to back the new issue (#4) of PALEOCENE! Find out how our tiny primate ancestors survived after the asteroid hit 66 million years ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book #paleoart #paleofiction #comic #comics #comicbooks #comicbook #paleontology #evolution #evolutionarybiology

Pocket Phylogenies—visual aids that fit in your wallet for explaining evolution-related questions. Print-out available free here: https://keesey.gumroad.com/l/pocketphylogenies #evolution #evolutionarybiology #sciart #SciArtSeptember #phylogenetics #biology

The first page of the issue #4 of PALEOCENE! The campaign to print it is half over -- discover what happens in Mamma and Brother's search for Sister. https://kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

#paleoart #paleofiction #comic #comicart #comicbook #evolutionarybiology #evolution #deeptime #animals #primates

Gizmodo: Only 1,280 Reproductive Human Ancestors Once Roamed Earth, Gene Study Suggests https://gizmodo.com/genetic-population-bottleneck-1850792411?utm_source=regular #recentafricanoriginofmodernhumans #mostrecentcommonancestor #prehistoricmigrations #populationbottleneck #evolutionarybiology #populationgenetics #earlymodernhuman #humanevolution #chrisstringer #environment #nickashton #extinction #speciation #ecology #human #hu

#ecology #anthropology #evolutionarybiology #philiosophy from the Foreward "Something has gone terribly wrong with the way we live on the Earth. In small steps, over the ciyrse of centuries, we have turned this teeming pkanet into a mausoleum. We didn't mean to. " #BaptisteMorizot

AAAS: "Crocodiles are alarmingly attuned to the cries of human infants." Infants across the animal kingdom cry out to their parents when they need something. But others may be listening. "Nile crocodiles are uniquely sensitive to the wails of distressed primate babies, according to a new study—and the more anxious the cry, the more interested the crocs become." Nicolas Grimault, a bioacoustician at the University of Lyon, and colleagues visited a zoo in Agadir, Morocco, that houses more than 300 Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)—a predator particularly well suited to hunting primates and other mammals. They installed loudspeakers alongside 4 ponds. "The speakers blared out a series of cries from chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), bonobo (P. paniscus), and human infants, captured in a variety of situations in order to document a wide range of emotion." Many of the crocs, both male + female, responded by rapidly approaching the sound source + sometimes even biting the speakers. "Crocs were more likely to respond to recordings with acoustic features known to correlate to highly upset infants such as disharmony, noise bursts, and uneven tones reminiscent of radio static." Human volunteers assessed cries by pitch, but crocs were even more adept at using alternative acoustic clues like disharmony and noise bursts. Responding to a dinner bell, a remarkable evolutionary adaptation.   #crocodile    #hunting    #evolutionarybiology

Charles Darwin was by no means the first person to consider #NaturalSelection (he didn't say he was), what Darwin did was to relate the idea (hypothesis) to the evidence in the natural world. Hence, we now have the robust evidence based theory of #evolution

Evolution Talk: The Case of Patrick Matthew

Episode webpage: https://evolutiontalk.com/the-case-of-patrick-matthew/

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/evolutiontalk/ET025_The_Case_of_Patrick_Matthew_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=522162

#science #EvolutionaryBiology

Charles Darwin was by no means the first person to consider n?#NaturalSelection (he didn't say he was), what Darwin did was to relate the idea (hypothesis) to the evidence in the natural world. Hence, we now have the robust evidence based theory of #evolution

Evolution Talk: The Case of Patrick Matthew

Episode webpage: https://evolutiontalk.com/the-case-of-patrick-matthew/

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/evolutiontalk/ET025_The_Case_of_Patrick_Matthew_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=522162

#science #EvolutionaryBiology

My friend Lauren Brent and her colleagues have published a paper on the #evolution of #menopause and maternal investment in #orcas, in the latest issue of #CurrentBiology. I'm really excited to read this research! They're addressing an important and long-standing question in #EvolutionaryBiology. And it's #OpenAccess.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00824-2#%20

The predators of flying insects, as with many people, don't recognise the difference between a stinging wasp & stingless wasp mimick.

Evolution, what organisms exist today, is the outcome of Natural Selection. Many species have acquired camouflage or mimicking adaptations.

Evolution Talk: Nature's Halloween Party

Episode webpage: https://evolutiontalk.com/natures-halloween-party

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/evolutiontalk/133_Batesian.mp3?dest-id=522162

#science #EvolutionaryBiology #NaturalSelection #nature #Wildlife

I just discovered the viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis and am currently freaking out with how cool it is. Figuring out what exactly viruses are and how they evolved will be imperative in figuring out the origin of eukaryotes, as well as the origin of cellular life in general. From what it seems we could very easily have a ton of stuff wrong.

#biology #microbiology #paleontology #evolutionarybiology

Fans of #Celegans will appreciate today's Research Highlight from Journal of Cell Science: Asako Sugimoto and colleagues identify unconventional subunits of the C. elegans γTuC microtubule nucleating complex acquired during its evolution, with important roles in embryonic development and germline maintenance. #microtubules #evolutionarybiology

Discovering divergent γTuC subunits in C. elegans
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/13/e136_e1303/323431/Discovering-divergent-gTuC-subunits-in-C-elegans

AAAS: "Some hummingbirds are flower robbers. Here's how to to spot them." 'Like a sword sliding into a sheath, hummingbirds slip their beaks into the tubes of flowers to drink the nectar within,' or at least that's always been our universal assumption. "Most hummingbird-pollinated flowers droop upside down, so the animals must nimbly hover to access them, frantically beating their wings up to 80 times a second.' Alejandro Rico-Guevara, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington, likens the birds to racecars: “They have an impressive engine that allows them to fly backwards, accelerate super-fast, and zoom from flower to flower,” he says. “But because that engine is on the maximum at all times, they need to refuel constantly.” Yet over 20 times in hummer evolution some species have developed shorter beaks + bigger feet, particularly the hallux claw, which is comparable to our big toes or thumb. Their behavior also involves clinging sideways or even upside down, so perhaps their feet are adapted to this task. This feeding behavior saves energy but robs the flower of the chance to leave pollen on the head feathers of the bird. If you look carefully at the photo, you will see a short-beaked fiery-throated hummingbird robbing nectar from a long-tubed flower by piercing its base. Not really a crime scene, because the flower was trying to extort work from the other hapless long-beaked hummers. Nature in beak + claw. #evolutionarybiology #ornithology #botany

From the 150th anniversary of a book that changed the world for ever. #OriginofSpecies by #Darwin. And what a beautiful final sentence. #evolution, #biology, #evolutionarybiology,.#history

'The colonization of our stomachs by #Helicobacter pylori is believed to predate the oldest splits between extant human populations. We identify a Hardy ecospecies of H. pylori associated with indigenous groups, isolated from people in Siberia, Canada, and USA.'

#Preprint #EvolutionaryBiology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.28.538659v3

I didn't include #introduction the first time. So, here goes again.

Recent late in life Dx #ActuallyAutistic #artist and #designer

Special interests in my bio plus these here:
• #LEGO
• #blender3d
• #RubiksCube
• #3Dprinting
• #JewelryDesign
• #drawing
• #DisneyWorld
• #geometry
• #TheoreticalPhysics
• #topology
• #EvolutionaryBiology
• #etymology
• #WebDesign
• #GraphicDesign
• #psychology
• #neurology
• #humor
• #nostalgia
• #engineering
• #technology

#JamesMcInerney - How Do You #Know You Know Something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRRlen_oz0&ab_channel=JamesTalksResearch

#Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Epistemology #Knowledge #Experiment #Falsifiability #Consilience

People regularly talk about what they have done, what they are doing, what they believe in, what has been done & what they want to do (subjective).

People talk less about what they are (objective). Perhaps that's because they are unsure or are concerned that they will be criticised or ridiculed (because some people have cruel personalities)

I'm an animal. A mammal to be more precise. I even have a mammal body to prove it. Some of my friends are people animals too

#science #EvolutionaryBiology