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Category: Basic Concepts
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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Category: Basic Concepts
First post in the ecology basics series.
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Category: Basic Concepts
A tour of the taiga, Basic Concepts style.
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Category: Basic Concepts
Thoughts about creative writing blogs.
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Category: Animals
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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Category: Animals
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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Category: Animals
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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Category: Basic Concepts
The next in the ecology basics series.
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The next in the Ecology basics series.
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Category: Basic Concepts
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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