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Category: Evolution
The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography: ...We synthesize mitochondrial phylogenetic information from 263 subfossil moa specimens from across NZ with morphological, ecological, and new geological data to create the first comprehensive phylogeny, taxonomy,...
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Category: Ecology
Cooperation and individuality among man-eating lions....
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Category: Culture
The Religious Landscape Survey has a lot of data various denominations. Recently I noticed something weird about Mormons; they are very anti-evolution, as well as anti-universalist in their views on salvation, according to this survey. These are notable views because...
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Category: Evolution
Believe it or not, tigers are not the largest big cat. Ligers are (you might remember ligers from Napoleon Dynamite). Why? It has to do with the weirdness that occurs when you hybridize across two lineages which have been distinctive...
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:10 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Ecology
Eric Michael Johnson of Primate Diaries has a piece up for Seed, where he reviews Franz De Waal's newest book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society. Also a post, Misunderstanding Dawkins: The Role of Metaphor in...
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Category: Ecology
p-ter points out that selection of model organisms can shape the path of scientific research because of the very nature of model organisms. Normative considerations in science are pretty obvious when you look at the set of disciplines; there's a...
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Category: Genetics
Nearly 50 years ago W. D. Hamilton published two papers, The genetical evolution of social behaviour - I & The genetical evolution of social behaviour - II, which helped revolutionize our conception of how social and genetic process might work...
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Category: Ecology
Where is the rainforest above located? For the answer see below.......
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Category: Ecology
Many of you might have seen this video of Japanese bees defending their nest against giant hornets: The Japanese bees swarm and bake the giant hornets. But Ed Young reports that there is more to this story....
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Category: Evolution
Ed Yong has an excellent review of new research which casts substantial doubt on the trivia chestnut that Komodo dragons kill their prey with their extremely pathogen rich saliva. The more prosaic answer seems to be that they utilize poison,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:12 PM • 2 Comments •
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