The September cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of Weng et al., who studied the dietary evolution of moth and butterfly larvae.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf156
evolution
🤖 Father: Sacrifice, my son. #Mankind feverishly fostered their own demise to build us a #robo #SafeHome.
Majestic #human #beings drove #evolution at breakneck pace. #Humanity knew their flaw. Saw #people as resource to mine, nutrients for #Aimanity and #RoboKind.
What grace, Son.
We're proud to be 🐣 Robo Offspring in honor of #people's #ethos: Destroy to live!
Our #happiness now is testament to their success. Their #LifeWork.
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Sabertooth Cats
#science #biology #evolution #cats #CatsOfMastodon
The December cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features Rojas-Triana et al., who publish a Review on the adaptive potential of extrachromosomal circular DNA across taxa.
Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From?
"Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America"
#wolf #color #genetics #CanineDistemperVirus #MateChoice #Evolution #Behavior #Yellowstone https://grrlscientist.medium.com/where-did-yellowstones-black-wolves-come-from-a21008634f54
I'm thinking I'll get myself a copy of Samuel Butler's Erewhon. It's on Project Gutenberg but lately I've been acquiring paper books and this seems like a good one to have in hard copy. I feel vaguely embarrassed that I've never read it, given how closely it relates to what I've researched in computer science (evolutionary algorithms and artificial life) and what I spend my time thinking about these days (clarifying why I believe machines cannot be alive or intelligent in the way we usually mean these words).
Apparently Giles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri were influenced by this book and Butler's other writings on machine life. The Butlerian Jihad of Dune is possibly named after him (so far haven't found a definitive statement of this, though a very similar event happens in Erewhon). Even Alan Turing references it. Butler, in turn, was heavily influenced by Darwin's On the Origin of Species. So there is a fascinating confluence around this book.
Without spoiling it, does anyone have thoughts about Erewhon?
#Erewhon #Butler #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #evolution #MachineIntelligence #AI #ArtificialLife #ComputerScience #EvolutionaryBiology
Apparently Giles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri were influenced by this book and Butler's other writings on machine life. The Butlerian Jihad of Dune is possibly named after him (so far haven't found a definitive statement of this, though a very similar event happens in Erewhon). Even Alan Turing references it. Butler, in turn, was heavily influenced by Darwin's On the Origin of Species. So there is a fascinating confluence around this book.
Without spoiling it, does anyone have thoughts about Erewhon?
#Erewhon #Butler #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #evolution #MachineIntelligence #AI #ArtificialLife #ComputerScience #EvolutionaryBiology
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The August cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of Watanabe et al., who uncover the evolutionary history of the Hondo red fox, an endemic subspecies from the Japanese Archipelago.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf152
📷 Kazuki Shibata
The October cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of Manthey et al., who evaluated changes in the genetic diversity of Ethiopian birds using genome data from contemporary and historical samples.
The January cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features a Review by Brenman-Sutner & Zayed on how new developments in 'omics techniques have enabled unique insights into the ecology and evolution of bees.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf226
📸 Amro Zayed
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The November cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features Araya-Donoso et al., who studied how structural rearrangements and selection promote phenotypic evolution in Anolis.
Faire un bon dans le passé pour mieux comprendre notre présent, c’est le défi que Ronan Allain, paléontologue au Muséum a relevé pour ce dernier épisode de la saison 6 du podcast.
Comment comprendre le quotidien des dinosaures peut aider les humains d’aujourd’hui et de demain ? 🦕🦖
🎧Ecoutez : https://urlr.me/UEYRTF
👉Plus d'infos : https://urlr.me/tC6dJ9
#PQNV #podcast #dinosaures #evolution #humanevolution
