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J-B Lamarck was born OTD in 1744

A “prime cause … endows animal life with the power to make organization gradually more complex…. Occasionally a foreign, accidental, and therefore variable cause has interfered with the execution of the plan, without, however, destroying it.”

🐋🌱🧪🗃️🧠 #EvoBio #HistSTM

J-B Lamarck was born OTD in 1744

A “prime cause … endows animal life with the power to make organization gradually more complex…. Occasionally a foreign, accidental, and therefore variable cause has interfered with the execution of the plan, without, however, destroying it.”

🐋🌱🧪🗃️🧠 #EvoBio #HistSTM

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920.

Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51).

She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel.

🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920.

Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51).

She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel.

🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920.

Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51).

She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel.

🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920.

Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51).

She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel.

🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920.

Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51).

She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel.

🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

OTD in 1925 John Scopes was found guilty of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee statute that forbade the teaching of "any theory … that man has descended from a lower order of animals."

The trial was as much an effort to bring tourist money into Dayton TN as anything else.

🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

OTD in 1925 John Scopes was found guilty of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee statute that forbade the teaching of "any theory … that man has descended from a lower order of animals."

The trial was as much an effort to bring tourist money into Dayton TN as anything else.

🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

OTD in 1925 John Scopes was found guilty of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee statute that forbade the teaching of "any theory … that man has descended from a lower order of animals."

The trial was as much an effort to bring tourist money into Dayton TN as anything else.

🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

The letters by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had been read before the Linnean Society.

OTD in 1858, D abandoned the “Big Species Book” he had been working on and began a short “abstract” of his theory.

It would go on to be published as On the Origin of Species.

🌱🐋🧪🧠🗃️ #HistSTM #EvoBio

The letters by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had been read before the Linnean Society.

OTD in 1858, D abandoned the “Big Species Book” he had been working on and began a short “abstract” of his theory.

It would go on to be published as On the Origin of Species.

🌱🐋🧪🧠🗃️ #HistSTM #EvoBio

The letters by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had been read before the Linnean Society.

OTD in 1858, D abandoned the “Big Species Book” he had been working on and began a short “abstract” of his theory.

It would go on to be published as On the Origin of Species.

🌱🐋🧪🧠🗃️ #HistSTM #EvoBio

OTD in 1858, papers by Darwin and Wallace proposing transmutation of species by natural selection were read to the Linnean Society.

Its president later noted that 1858 had not seen any “discoveries which at once revolutionize … the department of science on which they bear.”

🐋🌱🗃️🧠🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

OTD in 1858, papers by Darwin and Wallace proposing transmutation of species by natural selection were read to the Linnean Society.

Its president later noted that 1858 had not seen any “discoveries which at once revolutionize … the department of science on which they bear.”

🐋🌱🗃️🧠🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

On the role that diagramming played in Crick and Watson’s contributions to the structure of DNA--and on diagrams as epistemic tools in science and math more generally--see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (paywall). 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

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Tools of Reason: The Practice ...

On the role that diagramming played in Crick and Watson’s contributions to the structure of DNA--and on diagrams as epistemic tools in science and math more generally--see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (paywall). 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

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Tools of Reason: The Practice ...

Francis Crick was born OTD in 1916. We've all seen the DNA diagram that appeared in Crick and Watson’s Nature paper (left), but have you seen his sketch (right), from which his wife Odile made the published version? 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

Francis Crick was born OTD in 1916. We've all seen the DNA diagram that appeared in Crick and Watson’s Nature paper (left), but have you seen his sketch (right), from which his wife Odile made the published version? 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

My blog post on Darwin’s reimagining of sympathy is here: https://www.jhiblog.org/2017/11/13/what-if-humans-were-raised-like-bees-charles-darwin-and-the-evolution-of-morality/ My article on the same (paywall) here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/676147/pdf 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio

What if Humans Were Raised Lik...

My blog post on Darwin’s reimagining of sympathy is here: https://www.jhiblog.org/2017/11/13/what-if-humans-were-raised-like-bees-charles-darwin-and-the-evolution-of-morality/ My article on the same (paywall) here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/676147/pdf 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio

What if Humans Were Raised Lik...

Darwin later reconceived S’s sympathy” through an evolutionary lens, making morality more contingent and more widely distributed through the animal kingdom, than S had imagined. 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio

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Darwin later reconceived S’s sympathy” through an evolutionary lens, making morality more contingent and more widely distributed through the animal kingdom, than S had imagined. 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio

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Stewart pointed to Smith’s account of the development of human languages as an instance, but the epithet might equally be applied to Smith’s account of the evolution of moral principles out of our innate human faculty of “sympathy” with our fellows. 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio

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Stewart pointed to Smith’s account of the development of human languages as an instance, but the epithet might equally be applied to Smith’s account of the evolution of moral principles out of our innate human faculty of “sympathy” with our fellows. 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio

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Adam Smith was baptized OTD in 1723. A frequent explanatory practice was what Dugald Stewart called “conjectural history”—a narrative, fictive in its particulars, that is somehow truer in capturing the general processes by which certain phenomena tend to unfold. 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio

Adam Smith was baptized OTD in 1723. A frequent explanatory practice was what Dugald Stewart called “conjectural history”—a narrative, fictive in its particulars, that is somehow truer in capturing the general processes by which certain phenomena tend to unfold. 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio

Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!

https://youtu.be/_hw26yREe9w

#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae

Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!

https://youtu.be/_hw26yREe9w

#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae

Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!

https://youtu.be/_hw26yREe9w

#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae

Okay, I put off watching the latest ZeFrank video because it seemed to be about honeybees, which are boring (sorry bee people), but it's actually an amazing journey through geometry, evo-devo, the other, cooler Hymenoptera such as wasps, solitary bees, and ants, the evolution of eusociality, "stigmergy" (a new one for me), and more!

https://youtu.be/_hw26yREe9w

#bugstodon #entomology #insects #bees #wasps #ants #EvolutionaryBiology #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Formicidae

IAP proteins play central roles in regulating apoptosis - Lopes et al. show that IAP expansion in animals has repeatedly emerged through lineage-specific duplication events

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag078

#evobio #molbio

IAP proteins play central roles in regulating apoptosis - Lopes et al. show that IAP expansion in animals has repeatedly emerged through lineage-specific duplication events

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag078

#evobio #molbio

IAP proteins play central roles in regulating apoptosis - Lopes et al. show that IAP expansion in animals has repeatedly emerged through lineage-specific duplication events

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag078

#evobio #molbio

IAP proteins play central roles in regulating apoptosis - Lopes et al. show that IAP expansion in animals has repeatedly emerged through lineage-specific duplication events

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag078

#evobio #molbio

IAP proteins play central roles in regulating apoptosis - Lopes et al. show that IAP expansion in animals has repeatedly emerged through lineage-specific duplication events

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag078

#evobio #molbio

Goff et al. measure collateral fitness landscapes of TEM-1 β-lactamase in conditions expected to alter protein aggregation or stability, proposing that mutational destabilization is associated with deleterious collateral fitness effects.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag106

#evobio #molbio

Goff et al. measure collateral fitness landscapes of TEM-1 β-lactamase in conditions expected to alter protein aggregation or stability, proposing that mutational destabilization is associated with deleterious collateral fitness effects.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag106

#evobio #molbio

Goff et al. measure collateral fitness landscapes of TEM-1 β-lactamase in conditions expected to alter protein aggregation or stability, proposing that mutational destabilization is associated with deleterious collateral fitness effects.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag106

#evobio #molbio

Goff et al. measure collateral fitness landscapes of TEM-1 β-lactamase in conditions expected to alter protein aggregation or stability, proposing that mutational destabilization is associated with deleterious collateral fitness effects.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag106

#evobio #molbio

Goff et al. measure collateral fitness landscapes of TEM-1 β-lactamase in conditions expected to alter protein aggregation or stability, proposing that mutational destabilization is associated with deleterious collateral fitness effects.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag106

#evobio #molbio

Li et al. present a genomic reassessment of the endangered black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, suggesting the species is divided into five genetically distinct clusters.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag104

📷 Xinming He

#evobio #molbio

Li et al. present a genomic reassessment of the endangered black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, suggesting the species is divided into five genetically distinct clusters.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag104

📷 Xinming He

#evobio #molbio

Li et al. present a genomic reassessment of the endangered black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, suggesting the species is divided into five genetically distinct clusters.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag104

📷 Xinming He

#evobio #molbio

Li et al. present a genomic reassessment of the endangered black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, suggesting the species is divided into five genetically distinct clusters.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag104

📷 Xinming He

#evobio #molbio

Li et al. present a genomic reassessment of the endangered black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, suggesting the species is divided into five genetically distinct clusters.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag104

📷 Xinming He

#evobio #molbio

New study challenges common view that some Ediacaran fossils are traces of complex worm-like animals, saying they are assemblages of bacteria and algae. If true, this would suggest that the Cambrian Explosion may have marked a more major transition than had recently been thought. 🧪🌱🐋 #EvoBio

Stunning fossil discovery chal...

Thomas H Huxley was born OTD in 1825. The idea of “warfare” between science and religion is suspect, but it works for H. Protestantism lacks “a trace of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters” from the Pope to the Bible. 🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #EvoBio

The May issue of MBE is here, featuring the work of Topaloudis et al., who evaluated genotype imputation accuracy in a large barn owl low-coverage WGS dataset.

🔗 https://academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/5

📷 Alex Labhardt

#evobio #molbio

The May issue of MBE is here, featuring the work of Topaloudis et al., who evaluated genotype imputation accuracy in a large barn owl low-coverage WGS dataset.

🔗 https://academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/5

📷 Alex Labhardt

#evobio #molbio

The May issue of MBE is here, featuring the work of Topaloudis et al., who evaluated genotype imputation accuracy in a large barn owl low-coverage WGS dataset.

🔗 https://academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/5

📷 Alex Labhardt

#evobio #molbio

The May issue of MBE is here, featuring the work of Topaloudis et al., who evaluated genotype imputation accuracy in a large barn owl low-coverage WGS dataset.

🔗 https://academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/5

📷 Alex Labhardt

#evobio #molbio

The May issue of MBE is here, featuring the work of Topaloudis et al., who evaluated genotype imputation accuracy in a large barn owl low-coverage WGS dataset.

🔗 https://academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/5

📷 Alex Labhardt

#evobio #molbio

Berruga-Fernández et al. show that bacterial hybrid chromosome formation driven by conjugative mobile genetic elements may be an important and widespread mechanism in the emergence and evolution of high-risk bacterial pathogens.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag085

#evobio #molbio #bacteria

Berruga-Fernández et al. show that bacterial hybrid chromosome formation driven by conjugative mobile genetic elements may be an important and widespread mechanism in the emergence and evolution of high-risk bacterial pathogens.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag085

#evobio #molbio #bacteria

Berruga-Fernández et al. show that bacterial hybrid chromosome formation driven by conjugative mobile genetic elements may be an important and widespread mechanism in the emergence and evolution of high-risk bacterial pathogens.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag085

#evobio #molbio #bacteria

Berruga-Fernández et al. show that bacterial hybrid chromosome formation driven by conjugative mobile genetic elements may be an important and widespread mechanism in the emergence and evolution of high-risk bacterial pathogens.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag085

#evobio #molbio #bacteria

Ceriotti et al. investigate the rewiring of organellar translation in the holoparasitic Balanophoraceae, revealing extreme changes in the anciently conserved machinery of plant organellar translation.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag077

📷 Tuber and two inflorescences of the holoparasitic plant Lophophytum pyramidale collected from Parque Nacional Calilegua, Argentina

#evobio #molbio

Ceriotti et al. investigate the rewiring of organellar translation in the holoparasitic Balanophoraceae, revealing extreme changes in the anciently conserved machinery of plant organellar translation.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag077

📷 Tuber and two inflorescences of the holoparasitic plant Lophophytum pyramidale collected from Parque Nacional Calilegua, Argentina

#evobio #molbio

Ceriotti et al. investigate the rewiring of organellar translation in the holoparasitic Balanophoraceae, revealing extreme changes in the anciently conserved machinery of plant organellar translation.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag077

📷 Tuber and two inflorescences of the holoparasitic plant Lophophytum pyramidale collected from Parque Nacional Calilegua, Argentina

#evobio #molbio