A friend writes to say that this item could have been written for Evolution News and Science Today. Yes indeed. That is how things are heading…
Tag: beetles
Human body mass has some very interesting properties. Rob Sheldon riffs
So we are finally back to why neurons in the brain and galaxies in the universe are fractals–they are optimum solutions to connecting volumes with 1-D wires.
Evidence for insect pollination pushed back to 99 mya
That’s twice as long ago as previously thought. It is interesting how much theorizing depends on Darwinism rather than on sudden emergence and then stasis. And then suddenly there is no 50 million years to account for… A quite different set of problems appears.
Beetles freeloaded off ants 100 million years ago
So what, you say? Well, consider: We have no evidence that the relationship “evolved.” We are informed that we ought to see it as evolution but—as so often—we find the same patterns prevailing in the past, without any evolution.
Horizontal gene transfer from tunicates helps beetles against fungus
The genes were transferred to the beetles, researchers say, from sea squirts (tunicates) , with whom they have, may we say, not much in common, by microorganisms (symbiont bacterial strains). From ScienceDaily: An international team of researchers led by scientists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Read More…