In other news, #NaturalSelection still alive and well..
#naturalselection — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #naturalselection, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/444666/ Watch Live: Natural Selection Surf Goes To Africa #Africa #EithanOsborne #EliBeukes #HughieVaughan #JarvisEarle #MikeyWright #MillaCocoBrown #NaturalSelection #RedBull #SoliBailey
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Two Researchers Say Humans Are In the Midst of an Evolutionary Shift Like Never Before. But Not Everyone Is Convinced
AI-generated illustration. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. Some scientists say humans may be entering a new phase of evolution, one…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #evolution #naturalselection
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New publication: Additive effects of environmental and demographic variation shape the repeatability of #evolution across replicated experiments. #naturalselection #microbiome
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How Humans Changed Fruit Forever
Explore the truth about your favorite fruits! How human intervention has led to the unnatural evolution of fruits like bananas, making them sweeter and easier to eat.
Follow @biohackingpathway for more
#FruitEvolution #BananaHistory #FoodScience #HumanIntervention #SupermarketScience #PodcastInterview #FoodFacts #NaturalSelection #wellnessblog #wellnesswins #wellnessmatters #holisticwellbeing #wellnessmama #wellnesscoaches #SweetFruits #UnexpectedScience
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A review of the book "Time's Second Arrow" by Hazen and Wong, that makes the case that variation and selection drive increasing order and complexity in physics as well as in biology:
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐟🐘 A fuzzy red-and-orange #fish spotted off #PapuaNewGuinea has been identified as a new ghost #pipefish species named Solenostomus snuffleupagus after #SesameStreet’s Mr. #Snuffleupagus. Researchers confirmed it through measurements, CT scans, and #DNA, and found its scruffy look likely mimics floating #algae for #camouflage.
#science #marinebiology #biology #marine #ghostpipefish #ocean #coralreef #naturalselection #greatbarrierreef #science #nature #animals #wildlife #underwater
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I've long been suspicious of claims of agency – and of psychology more generally. And I'm still unsurprised at how many misunderstand the notion of evolution and the problem of natural selection, not as a process but as a phrase.
👉 https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-bacterium-does-not-want-to-live
Not being a biologist, I decided to look at this through the lens of language.
#philosophy #language #biology #science #evolution #grammar #bacteria #agency #life #purpose #survival #naturalselection #darwin #English
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https://www.europesays.com/afrika/45485/ Natural Selection eröffnet „regeneratives Safari-Camp“ » news | tip #Nachhaltigkeit #Namibia #naturalselection #safarilodge #safarireisen
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A summary--not really a review--of James T. Costa's book 'Radical by Nature' on Alfred Russel Wallace and how he came to co-discover evolution through natural selection:
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/363901/ Africa Adds New Layers to the Luxury Safari Map #Africa #AnantaraTentedCampKafueRiver #AndBeyondSuyianLodge #AndbeyondSuyianHomestead #AsiliaAfrica #HoanibElephantCamp #KananaNyana #Ker&DowneyBotswana #MinorHotels #NamiriPlains #NaturalSelection #RekeroCamp #SayariCamp
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The Peppered Moth (Biston betularia) showed a dark-coloured form in Bernard Kettlewell's classic study on industrial melanism as a response illustrating #NaturalSelection pressures.
A pale coloured form in #Brighton, seen and photographed by PKster
#Wildlife #Biodiversity #Nature #brightonwildlife
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The Peppered Moth (Biston betularia) showed a dark-coloured form in Bernard Kettlewell's classic study on industrial melanism as a response illustrating #NaturalSelection pressures.
A pale coloured form in #Brighton, seen and photographed by PKster
#Wildlife #Biodiversity #Nature #brightonwildlife
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6hzglooptrt5bsqy2oziokoz/post/3mrrsntouqk2s -
Study Reveals Ongoing Natural Selection in Modern Humans
Summary: Researchers used an age-stratified allele frequency approach across adults aged 24 to 70. By tracking how genetic…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #brainresearch #BRCA1 #evolution #evolutionaryneuroscience #Genetics #naturalselection #neurobiology #Neuroscience #NYCU
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A new study of 72,000 Han Taiwanese genomes caught natural selection acting in real time, including two opposite selection signals inside the cancer gene BRCA1 itself. Evolution isn’t finished with us. #HumanEvolution #Genomics #NaturalSelection https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-cancer-gene-that-is-still-fighting
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐭🧬 A #Rutgers University study found that 84% of house #mice and 35% of #Norway #rats in four northeastern cities carry mutations that may help them survive common poisons. The #research points to an evolutionary arms race driven by decades of #chemical pest control.
👉 https://scitechdaily.com/urban-rodents-are-evolving-to-survive-common-poisons/
#evolution #naturalselection #rodents #urban #wildlife #genetics #science #biology #adaptation #wildlife #chemistry
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RE: https://toad.social/@tend2wobble/116814074678609906
#NaturalSelection at work -- just not fast enough. #science #medicine
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 💧☠️ In the Argentinian #Andes, San Antonio de los Cobres residents drink #water with #arsenic levels 20 times the safe limit.
#Uppsala University researchers found they carry a #gene variant that turns arsenic into a form their bodies can safely flush out.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-in-the-andes-seem-to-have-evolved-a-strange-genetic-ability
#argentina #evolution #genetics #naturalselection #dna #biology #science #sanantoniodeloscobres #atacama #health #medicine
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦝🧬 A 2025 study found urban #raccoons have shorter snouts than rural ones – a possible #domestication syndrome signal.
But UC #Berkeley’s Lauren Stanton says #diet, not #genetics, might explain the change. Raccoons’ wild #intelligence is what makes them special, and trying to turn them into #pets would likely backfire.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/raccoon-pets/
#domestication #evolution #wildlife #science #biology #animals #dogs #cats #naturalselection #berkeley
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Thanks to natural selection, Indigenous Andeans may digest #potatoes better than anyone else in the world, study finds
After domesticating potatoes 10,000 years ago, the ancient people of the #Andes evolved to have more copies of a key #gene involved in digesting starch.
#NaturalSelection drove the surge in #amylase genes following the local domestication of potatoes around 10,000 years ago, according to the study published May 5 in the journal Nature Communications.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/americas/thanks-to-natural-selection-indigenous-andeans-may-digest-potatoes-better-than-anyone-else-in-the-world-study-finds -
Why Can’t Humans Regrow Limbs? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
Salamanders regrow entire limbs. We share their evolutionary blueprint. So why can’t humans do the same? The answer…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Evolution #frog #GB #Howdoesregenerationwork #immunesystem #Immunology #larvalmetamorphosis #naturalselection #Regeneration #salamander #UK #UnitedKingdom #whycan'tweregrowlimbs
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/951124/ Why Can’t Humans Regrow Limbs? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains #evolution #frog #HowDoesRegenerationWork #ImmuneSystem #Immunology #LarvalMetamorphosis #NaturalSelection #Regeneration #salamander #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #WhyCan'tWeRegrowLimbs
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How Humans Changed Fruit Forever
Explore the truth about your favorite fruits! How human intervention has led to the unnatural evolution of fruits like bananas, making them sweeter and easier to eat.
Follow @biohackingpathway for more
#FruitEvolution #BananaHistory #FoodScience #HumanIntervention #SupermarketScience #PodcastInterview #FoodFacts #NaturalSelection #wellnessblog #wellnesswins #wellnessmatters #holisticwellbeing #wellnessmama #wellnesscoaches #SweetFruits #UnexpectedScience
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Essay (1881-08) “The Christian Religion,” “Is All of the Bible Inspired?” ch. 2, North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 297More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #consequences #God #morality #natural #naturalselection #nature #outcomes #punishment #results #reward #causeandeffect
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#Humans in #Andes Appear to Have Evolved Strange #Genetic Ability
For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on #drinkingwater that would make most people deathly ill, naturally occurring #arsenic in volcanic bedrock leaches into the groundwater, contaminating water with levels of toxic metalloid that would pose serious health risks.
But for one group in north #Argentina #naturalselection may have provided an unusual genetic advantage.
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#PSA: this is your periodic reminder that “survival of the fittest” is NOT about physical fitness* – it means “the best fit for the local environment, which allows an organism to survive, reproduce, and pass on its traits to its offspring”
e.g. people who have the genetically inherited disease sickle cell anaemia are generally “less fit” (in a physical fitness / life expectancy sense) than those who don’t have it, but in areas where malaria is endemic, having sickle cell anaemia provides a degree of immunity from the worst symptoms of malaria^ – so people with sickle cell anaemia are “the best fit” (or “the fittest”) for the local environment compared to those who don’t have it 💁♀️
#SurvivalOfTheFittest
#NaturalSelection
#biology101
^ this is simplified, for more nuance (esp. heterozygosity vs. homozygosity) start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease?wprov=sfti1#Malaria -
Redheads are ‘spreading across the globe’ as humans are still evolving | World | News
Britain’s Prince Harry may have done more to boost the profile of redheads than he has for the…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #Evolution #GB #geneticvariants #humanevolution #naturalselection #Redheads #UK #UnitedKingdom #Variant
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15-Apr-2026
Massive #ancientDNA study reveals #naturalSelection has accelerated in recent human evolution
Hundreds of genes selected in West Eurasia since farming began, many linked to healthhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123959
#science #genome #humans #humanEvolution -
Of course, you need to be sensible when you're first starting out. Don't mess with #dangerous things. You don't start repairing hydraulic systems or mains-voltage gear or machines that can take your arm off if you sneeze wrong.
Start with simple stuff, and basic safety precautions.
You can try #electrical stuff, as long as you unplug it and short any big capacitors (large cylindrical things) it has, in case they don't have a bleed resistor on them.
Even better is to start with something that plugs in with an external low-voltage plugpack - it's much harder to kill yourself with a tower fan that runs from 24 VDC than one that runs directly off the mains.
Maybe do a brief web search on the device if you're not sure about it, just to see if there are warnings about working on it.
Surprising (in some sense) things to avoid working on:
Microwave oven. This is the object in your house that is trying hardest to kill you. High frequency, high-voltage AC will kill you dead if you get it across your body.
Old-fashioned CRT (TV/monitor) tubes. Very high voltages, and frequently hold a charge for a long time.
Gas-powered equipment. You can't "unplug" them, and there's always a chance there's enough gas hidden in the carburetor or the removed spark plug wire bumps into the plug that it could puff to life if you turn the crankshaft. One revolution is enough to maim or kill you.
Have fun!
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#danger #DangerWillRobinson #DIY #fixit #DarwinAward #NaturalSelection
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A sweeping new review of five decades of scientific literature finds robust evidence that natural selection operates simultaneously across multiple levels of life, from genes to groups to entire communities, and not just on individual organisms.
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The #Naturalselection is what I would wish everyone who watched #snowboarding at the #olympics should get to see instead - great riding in superb terrain.
Now live from Revelstoke, BC: https://www.youtube.com/live/fOx1qMS3I-g?si=xklOlrTxaMARWzW_
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My review of two books about the evolution of maladaptation and human imperfection is now out as Early Alert in the journal Evolution @sse_evolution
Enjoy!
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpag033/8503492
