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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Local evolutionary adaptation occurs when populations of a single species develop heritable, genetic traits that are finely tuned to the highly specific conditions of their immediate environment.
#EvolutionaryBiology #Ecology #ConservationBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/ebio09102601.html

https://www.europesays.com/ie/681036/ Adaptive zones of feliforms and evolutionary regimes within terrestrial mammalian carnivores #BiologicalAndPhysicalAnthropology #Ecology #Éire #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionaryEcology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Palaeoecology #palaeontology #paleontology #Science #Zoology

Coevolution (Habitat 🌄)

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution

#Coevolution #Habitat #EcologicalProcesses #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionOfTheBiosphere #EnvironmentalTerminology

Coevolution (Habitat 🌄)

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution

#Coevolution #Habitat #EcologicalProcesses #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionOfTheBiosphere #EnvironmentalTerminology

It is a remarkably humbling realization that a single, unnoticed bite from an arthropod the size of an apple seed can completely rewrite an individual's relationship with the global food chain. Alpha-gal syndrome reminds us that the human immune system, for all its staggering sophistication and atomic-level precision, remains intimately and sometimes precariously tethered to the natural world.
#WhatIs #Immunology #MolecularBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Entomology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/wi09102601.html

DATE: August 31, 2026 at 08:53AM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY PSYCHOLOGY FEED

TITLE: Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth

URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260829235958.htm

A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles of brain wiring, expanding one while shrinking the other depending on what an animal needs to survive.

URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260829235958.htm

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DATE: August 31, 2026 at 08:53AM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY MIND-BRAIN FEED

TITLE: Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth

URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260829235958.htm

A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles of brain wiring, expanding one while shrinking the other depending on what an animal needs to survive.

URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260829235958.htm

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #BrainEvolution #LizardBrainMyth #Neuroscience #BrainWiring #EvolutionaryBiology #ScienceNews #Neurobiology #AnimalBrains #CognitiveScience #MythBusting

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

How tameness unlocked the secrets of domestication

For 15,000 years, humankind has had a best friend. We pet them, treat them like children, put them…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Genetics #Animalbehavior #Belyaev #Domestication #Evolutionarybiology #foxexperiment #GoodHope #Human-animalrelationship #Science #Selectivebreeding
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/18026/

Everything evolves, even if it's not obvious in morphology.

#evolution #livingfossils #adaptation #morphology #genetics #immunesystems #evolutionaryhistory #evolutionarybiology

Living Fossils Revealed: The Hidden Evolution of These 4 Ancient Species | Discover Magazine https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/living-fossils-revealed-the-hidden-evolution-of-these-4-ancient-species?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

From black hole physics to theoretical behavioural ecology. John M McNamara giving an inaugural lecture in Budapest, Hungary: "The art of the state, modelling the endpoints of evolution by natural selection". (Don't miss the famous photos of Alasdair Houston and John from the 70s)

#Science #Biology #Ecology #Evolution #EvolutionaryTheory #EvolutionaryBiology #AnimalBehaviour #Behaviour #BehaviouralEcology #bird #ParentalCare #GameTheory #Lecture #Bristol

https://youtu.be/GSTK9x1Z0LA?si=0QpEuj_rXiY3QK4b

Now published in its final form: Parallel evolution of amphioxus and vertebrate small-scale gene duplications by Brasó-Vives et al
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-022-02808-6
#EvoDevo #EvolutionaryBiology #Genomics #Amphioxus #Chordate #ortholog #paralog #GeneDuplication