Even from space, you can see that the planet Earth is full of life. When you take a closer look, you'll discover a delicate ...
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Sick ants choose the colony over their own lives
Ant colonies survive because individuals are willing to die. New research shows that some of the most vulnerable members, ...
Should a beehive be viewed as a collection of individual organisms, or a single organism unto itself? Or both? Over the last several days I've written about the proposition that evolution can't be ...
A new naming structure proposed by an American researcher moves beyond the Linnaeus system to one based on the genetic sequence of each individual organism. This creates a more robust, precise, and ...
Today, more than half of the human population lives in hive-like warrens called cities. Does this mean we are on the tipping point of becoming colony animals the way bees and ants did? It’s not ...
When you see a dominant trait, the underlying genetic make-up can still be ambiguous. See how researchers use test crosses to find out the genotype behind the phenotype. The test cross is another ...
Natural history, in focusing on the individual whole organism in its environment, occupies a central position in the spectra of spatial and temporal scales appropriate to biological science. This ...
Find out what Darwin never knew. He understood that species adapt and change, but he didn't understand the actual processes that made this happen. New discoveries in the emerging science of "evo devo" ...
The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has been an evolutionary mystery. Death could hardly provide a fitness advantage to the dying individual. However, a new study has found ...
Earth's population is estimated to be roughly 8 billion people, according to the United Nations. Depending on body size and thus the surface area of skin, a person could have more than 8 billion ...
The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has been an evolutionary mystery. Death could hardly provide a fitness advantage to the dying individual. However, a new study has found ...
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