“What we found shows that same-sex [sexual behavior] is not like something bizarre, aberrant or rare. It’s everywhere, it’s very useful, it’s very important,” says Vincent Savolainen, co-author of a new study that shows 59 nonhuman primate species take part in same-sex sexual activities. Here's more from NBC.
“What we found shows that same-sex [sexual behavior] is not like something bizarre, aberrant or rare. It’s everywhere, it’s very useful, it’s very important,” says Vincent Savolainen, co-author of a new study that shows 59 nonhuman primate species take part in same-sex sexual activities. Here's more from NBC.
🧬 New paper by Dera et al. in Science Advances proposing a geometric complexity space to map the full morphological diversity of life.
Striking result: life occupies only a tiny, clustered region of all geometrically possible forms, with large heteromorphic regions systematically avoided. The authors argue that this reflects deep physical and developmental constraints shaping evolution.
🧬 New paper by Dera et al. in Science Advances proposing a geometric complexity space to map the full morphological diversity of life.
Striking result: life occupies only a tiny, clustered region of all geometrically possible forms, with large heteromorphic regions systematically avoided. The authors argue that this reflects deep physical and developmental constraints shaping evolution.
Billions of years ago, #life crossed a threshold. Single cells started to band together, and a world of formless, unicellular life was on course to evolve into the riot of shapes and functions of multicellular life today, from ants to pear trees to people.
It's a transition as momentous as any in the history of life, and until recently we had no idea how it happened.
But the momentous transition to #multicellular life may not have been so hard after all.
The evidence comes from multiple directions. The evolutionary histories of some groups of organisms record repeated transitions from single-celled to multicellular forms, suggesting the hurdles could not have been so high.
Genetic comparisons between simple multicellular organisms and their single-celled relatives have revealed that much of the molecular equipment needed for cells to band together and coordinate their activities may have been in place well before multicellularity evolved.
And clever experiments have shown that in the test tube, single-celled life can evolve the beginnings of multicellularity in just a few hundred generations—an evolutionary instant.
#biology #evolution
https://www.science.org/content/article/momentous-transition-multicellular-life-may-not-have-been-so-hard-after-all
Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/01/cloudspecs-cloud-hardware-evolution.html
#HackerNews #Cloudspecs #CloudHardware #Evolution #Technology #Trends #FutureOfCloud
Lego announces Smart Brick, the 'most significant evolution' in 50 years, no AI
#HackerNews #Lego #Smart #Brick #evolution #innovation #technology #toys
Billions of years ago, #life crossed a threshold. Single cells started to band together, and a world of formless, unicellular life was on course to evolve into the riot of shapes and functions of multicellular life today, from ants to pear trees to people.
It's a transition as momentous as any in the history of life, and until recently we had no idea how it happened.
But the momentous transition to #multicellular life may not have been so hard after all.
The evidence comes from multiple directions. The evolutionary histories of some groups of organisms record repeated transitions from single-celled to multicellular forms, suggesting the hurdles could not have been so high.
Genetic comparisons between simple multicellular organisms and their single-celled relatives have revealed that much of the molecular equipment needed for cells to band together and coordinate their activities may have been in place well before multicellularity evolved.
And clever experiments have shown that in the test tube, single-celled life can evolve the beginnings of multicellularity in just a few hundred generations—an evolutionary instant.
#biology #evolution
https://www.science.org/content/article/momentous-transition-multicellular-life-may-not-have-been-so-hard-after-all
The meek did inherit the Earth, at least among ants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/science/ants-exoskeletons-weak.html
#HackerNews #ants #meek #inheritance #science #nature #evolution
Darwin the Man of His Times
https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-man-of-his-times
#HackerNews #Darwin #Evolution #History #Science #Enlightenment
We apply hedonic peer production to optimize #mutualism in order to maximize synergetic #valueflows.
So that all #participants in a #commons and stakeholders in need, are able to #grow and become ⭕ whole. On trajectories of continuous #evolution.
All it takes is to simply:
⚡ #act smartly
🌱 #start smallest
🧧 #invite players
✨ #activate others
#Dreams turn to #solutions where we #realize them together to 😋 satisfy needs.
🔮 Simple solutions still exist.
🫒 Where movements grow,
🫂 People unite!
A special guest episode from software engineer and Aristotle scholar Andrew Tane Glen (also my best mate), voiced by the man himself, introducing the Super-Defector!
#Cooperation #Evolution #History #Philosophy #Anthropology
https://open.spotify.com/episode/39lei249kVSqbPpSSjLXSr?si=DbJqy4m3SJqJpS1NeDbT2g
A special guest episode from software engineer and Aristotle scholar Andrew Tane Glen (also my best mate), voiced by the man himself, introducing the Super-Defector!
#Cooperation #Evolution #History #Philosophy #Anthropology
https://open.spotify.com/episode/39lei249kVSqbPpSSjLXSr?si=DbJqy4m3SJqJpS1NeDbT2g
I caught up with this amazing science study published this month. When the UCLA campus in Southern California closed during the peak of the covid pandemic, the beaks of dark-eyed juncos (birds) on campus shifted to be more like the non-urban wild birds. Then, in the years afterwards, the birds shifted back to pre-covid urban beaks. It's microevolution caught in action.
Pam Yeh, the professor involved in the study, has been carefully studying junco evolution since grad school, and so was ideally placed to spot this subtle evolutionary shift.
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/bird-beaks-changed-shape-during-pandemic-junco
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122
I caught up with this amazing science study published this month. When the UCLA campus in Southern California closed during the peak of the covid pandemic, the beaks of dark-eyed juncos (birds) on campus shifted to be more like the non-urban wild birds. Then, in the years afterwards, the birds shifted back to pre-covid urban beaks. It's microevolution caught in action.
Pam Yeh, the professor involved in the study, has been carefully studying junco evolution since grad school, and so was ideally placed to spot this subtle evolutionary shift.
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/bird-beaks-changed-shape-during-pandemic-junco
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122
Modern Cats Were Domesticated Only 2,000 Years Ago
"Ancient DNA reveals the origin and global spread of the domestic cat out of its ancestral home in Africa."
#cats #wildcats #evolution #domestication #AncientDNA #genomics https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/12/16/modern-cats-were-domesticated-only-2000-years-ago/
Modern Cats Were Domesticated Only 2,000 Years Ago
"Ancient DNA reveals the origin and global spread of the domestic cat out of its ancestral home in Africa."
#cats #wildcats #evolution #domestication #AncientDNA #genomics https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/12/16/modern-cats-were-domesticated-only-2000-years-ago/
