Although many people have heard about industrial melanism in the British peppered moth, it is not widely appreciated that dark forms increased in over 100…
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Published 2nd December 2022
Repeated evolution of seed dispersal by ants: 100 independent origins of Myrmecochory
Seed dispersal is a fundamental life history trait in plants … Myrmecochory (seed dispersal by ants) is mediated by elaiosomes, i.e., lipid-rich seed appendages that…
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Published 2nd December 2022
Repeated evolution: Live birth originated independently 150+ times
Darwinian world of miracles: Phylogenetic analyses indicate that viviparity (live-bearing reproduction) has originated independently in more than 150 vertebrate lineages, including a minimum of 115…
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Published 21st March 2022
Repeated evolution of venom: 100+ independent origins of complex chemical mixtures
Venoms are complex mixtures of enzymes and proteins of various sizes, amines, lipids, nucleosides, and carbohydrates. Venoms also contain various metal ions that are presumed…
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Published 16th September 2021
Multi-level repeated evolution of complex traits: 94 independent origins of bioluminescence
First things first: Bioluminescence is the production of light by living organisms, the light emitted by organisms such as glow-worms, deep-sea fish, fireflies and others.…
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Published 23rd October 2020
Researchers: Crabs evolved separately at least five times. What ? Is it some kind of joke ?
Obviously, in a Darwinian fantasy world of random mutation everything is possible. at Popular Mechanics: Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, Which Is Somewhat Disturbing It’s…
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Published 1st September 2020
Repeated evolution of multilayered reflective metallic surface in unrelated insects
as you will see, a series of miraculous events happened a long time ago, when at the same moment, several unrelated lineages of insects ‘invented’…
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Published 31st August 2020
Blood clotting – Surprising degree of repeated evolution in vertebrates and invertebrates
Hello? Darwinians ? Why is everything so surprising? from a mainstream paper: Recent delineation of the serine protease cascade controlling dorsal–ventral patterning during Drosophila embryogenesis…
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Published 17th August 2020
Repeated evolution of Myelin – a sheath of multilayered membranes around nerves nodes.
Current concepts of invertebrate phylogeny are reviewed. Annelida and Arthropoda, previously regarded as closely related, are now placed in separate clades. Myelin, a sheath of…
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Published 21st July 2020
Repeated Evolution Versus Common Ancestry
from a mainstream paper: Why sex chromosomes turn over and remain undifferentiated in some taxa, whereas they degenerate in others, is still an area of…
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