From PNAS.ORG: These results illustrate exactly why arthropod compound eye evolution has remained controversial, because one of two seemingly very unlikely evolutionary histories must be…
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Published 11th February 2020
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Published 3rd February 2020
Repeated evolution: The same retroviral gene coopted independently by unrelated species to aid reproduction
… in other words: a species gets infected by a virus, the virus inserts a part of its own viral-DNA into the species genome. Later…
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Published 16th January 2020
Repeated evolution: Complex brains and high intelligence evolved many times independently
… yes, that miracle happened not once, but many times…independently … it seems that most miracles happen in biology … over and over again ……
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Published 24th November 2019
Repeated evolution: Placental structure evolved several times, then has been lost, and then re-evolved many times
i know that stuff happens but anyway… all this by random mutations ? In Poeciliopsis fish, eggs are retained within the follicle after fertilization and…
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Published 21st August 2019
Repeated evolution: from egg laying to live-birth and then back to egg laying. Lizards re-evolved laying eggs multiple times
Stuff happens … over and over again … A family of lizards has achieved something very unexpected, evolving to give birth to live young, before going…
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