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RT @HelenMcCreery: How do army ants build robust, yet responsive bridges? @georginagem, @PaisAnaIsabel, @sjmgarnier, @robothika, & I study…
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@JoeySantore Yea, this is complicated. Say a mutation knocks eye development in one go. That's not evidence that eye development is a simple "a hopeful monster." It's evidence that stunning complexity is easily lost. On the other hand, this and various peloric mutations are mind-blowing.
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RT @NicolasRohner: Now out: Super fun collab with @AlexCarlKeene @turtlemcgaugh @JohannaKowalko labs on an amazing example of convergent mo…
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@hopihoekstra Call me weird, and both are amazing, but I still find the dormant plants in the photo more exotic than the dormant insect. I mean, at least it's not a vertebrate (which would raise additional concerns about kitchen hygiene).
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@Dr_Crushworth Down with bigoted intolerance! Thanks to Cathy! And here's the frequency distribution of "y'all," "youse," and "you guys":
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@Graham_Coop @PlantEvolution @molly_przew @imartincorena Random ≠ uniform turns out to be a misunderstood central tenet of evolutionary biology.
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RT @vsbuffalo: I've been thinking about Andrew Wyeth's 1948 painting "Christina's World" and how art can enrich how we teach genetics. At f…
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@yanivbrandvain For those interested in total time, not just web-brick delta, don't forget to add the XX hours of trying to repair multinational corp. parental controls. And also SO much brew/apt and whatnot, to re-install stuff, fix paths... P.S. I tried Migration Assistant. Never again.
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@flodebarre @vsbuffalo Yea, I'm with @vsbuffalo, this is definitely either more confusing or of limited help. IMO, it's worse than "linkage disequilibrium," which is somewhat discernable, or "bootstrap," which is at least half-way funny.
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Before either of us passes, probably of a climate-related disaster, I would like battle @xkcd at Mario Kart.
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@vsbuffalo I think this should come with the added qualification: "in the United States." In markets around Central Europe, Balkans, and Turkey, they are outstanding. The situation is similar with pluots and plums.
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RT @MExpositoAlonso: The coolest🌱molecular story I have been part of A disordered protein that senses water in seeds by changing phase fro…
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Plant mimicry is obviously the best, but animals are also cute when they try.
Look at this moth from the genus Phalera It looks like a fragment of twig complete with chipped bark and even the layering of wood tissue at the “cut” ends...perfectly resembling a broken piece of wood to avoid predation.
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The power of sexual selection.
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RT @DrMattRitter: Thanks ALA Booklist for the encouraging review of my new children's book Something Wonderful! "A great choice for classro…
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RT @Evolutionistrue: Gynandromorph stag beetle: side with big mouthpart is male, the other side is female. It's split right down the middle…
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RT @BorisIgic: Eudicot RNase-based self-incompatibility in yet another family: Primulaceae (Lysimachia monelli). See Karolis Ramanauskas @k…
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