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Soldier bees, super-soldier ants « Why Evolution Is True
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Why Evolution Is True. Laquo; And now for something completely different: trilobites. Maslow’s hierarchy of internet needs. Soldier bees, super-soldier ants. This raises a fascinating question: how does the genome of a single species code such a wide variety of forms? In other words, how are the different developmental pathways turned on and off? Two recent papers one in. On ants, the other on bees in P. Roceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). Workers in a nest are guards. The guards are mu...
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What would disprove evolution? « Why Evolution Is True
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Why Evolution Is True. Laquo; Three-month-old clouded leopard cubs. What would disprove evolution? If evolution is a scientific theory worth its salt, then there must be some conceivable observations that could show it to be wrong. I just wanted to put down, for the record, what some of those observations might be. First, let’s reprise what I see as the major components of the theory of evolution. Evolution occurs, that is, there is gene frequency change in populations over generations. The process produ...