Over the past few billion years, life has persisted through countless geologic, atmospheric and extraterrestrial disturbances through its ability to change with the environment. Ecosystems exist in their present state because they have evolved to be as such. It took...
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Posted on October 12, 2007 11:36 AM • 1 Comments •
First post in the ecology basics series.
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Posted on October 10, 2007 11:27 AM • 1 Comments •
A tour of the taiga, Basic Concepts style.
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Posted on September 24, 2007 11:10 AM • 2 Comments •
Thoughts about creative writing blogs.
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Posted on September 15, 2007 8:26 AM • 3 Comments •
So far we have established that spiders are distinct from insects for two reasons: physiology (mouth parts, body plan, respiratory structures) and more importantly, evolutionary history (or phylogeny, as scientists call it). But where did spider's come from? How did...
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Posted on July 13, 2007 11:15 AM • 3 Comments •
So how is it that spiders are more closely related to horseshoe crabs - marine arthropods that haven't changed much in the past 250 million years - than to a more obvious choice, the insects? The answer to that question...
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Posted on July 12, 2007 11:05 AM • 1 Comments •
I started this series of posts almost a year ago, incorporating some basics about taxonomy, evolution, and a little genetics while exploring my fascination with the Chelicerates. I'll be reposting the series, which is included in the Basic Concepts list,...
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Posted on July 11, 2007 1:00 PM • 11 Comments •
The next in the ecology basics series.
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Posted on May 24, 2007 11:57 AM • 3 Comments •
The next in the Ecology basics series.
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Posted on April 20, 2007 8:00 AM • 2 Comments •
From a human perspective, deserts, like tundras, seem barren and desolate, inhabited by organismal oddities, pressed into their respective niches by patch of bad luck, or a salt flat, as it were. But thinking beyond our prejudice, seeing through the...
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Posted on March 24, 2007 10:15 AM • 1 Comments •
Jeremy Bruno is a tech writer who blogs about ecology, evolution, conservation and culture at The Voltage Gate. Visit the old blog.
