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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬How Did <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Hands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hands</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Evolve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Evolve</a>? Look to Your Anus, a New Study Suggests. The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study suggests. It turns out that hands and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/feet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feet</a> were not the products of new <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/genes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genes</a> doing new things. Rather, through <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/naturalselection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#naturalselection</a>, pieces of old genetic recipes for ancient body parts were cobbled together into new combinations. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/science/evolution-crispr-hands.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/science/evolution-crispr-hands.html</a> <a href="https://archive.ph/jgEjV" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/jgEjV</a>

Kamu İş İlanları, HaberlerThe Role of Mutation in Evolution: Engine of Genetic Diversity <a href="https://theblogofscience.com/the-role-of-mutation-in-evolution-engine-of-genetic-diversity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theblogofscience.com/the-role-of-mutation-in-evolution-engine-of-genetic-diversity/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mutation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mutation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeneticVariation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneticVariation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Speciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Speciation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genome</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a>

Kamu İş İlanları, HaberlerWhat Is Evolution: The Story of Life's Diversity <a href="https://theblogofscience.com/what-is-evolution-the-story-of-lifes-diversity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theblogofscience.com/what-is-evolution-the-story-of-lifes-diversity/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Darwin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Species" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Species</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Adaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Adaptation</a>

bk<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ai6yr</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a>

𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓬 𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crosses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crosses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a>

Peter Practice 🇨🇭 🇨🇦 🇩🇪<a href="https://mastodon.social/@mimikama" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mimikama</a> Was für Arschlöcher. Aber heisst das nicht auch, dass sie recht bald aussterben werden, wenn sie ihre Frauen zugrunde gehen lassen? <a href="https://toot.community/tags/naturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#naturalSelection</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/darwinawards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#darwinawards</a>

Mark<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Darwin</a> Awards proudly continue this noble tradition by honouring <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/visionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visionaries</a> who looked at artificial <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intelligence</a>—a technology capable of reshaping civilisation—and thought.You know what this needs? Less <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#safety</a> testing and more venture capital!These brave pioneers remind us <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a> isn’t just for <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biology</a> anymoreWhy stop at individual acts of spectacular stupidity when you can scale up to global proportions?<a href="https://aidarwinawards.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://aidarwinawards.org/</a>

Swede’s PhotographsGood morning. 🦌🦌🦌5 September 2025When You Look Into the Face of Another AnimalWhen you look into the face of another animal, what do you see?And by another animal, I mean one other than yourself. Humans are part of the animal world, you know—just another species, all dressed up. Putting clothes on an animal doesn’t make it not so, does it?Sure, we’re smarter. Top of the food chain, allegedly. But it doesn’t take a high level of geniosity to look at other mammals and see that we’re simply a variation in design. You can use your beliefs to explain the differences if you like. But the similarities? They’re plain to see.I stick with the scientific explanations—natural selection and all that. But I’m getting off track.When you look into the face of another animal, do you see a thinking, living, feeling creature? Because if you really take the time to notice, that’s what you’ll see.A couple of days ago, while mowing my lawn, I stopped cold. There—on a trail that cuts through the forest—stood a huge, regal-looking buck. Right in the middle of the path. Staring at me.We both held still for a few seconds. I reached to turn off the mower, and when I looked up, he was gone.Of course, those moments always happen when I don’t have my camera“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals… In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained.” — Henry Beston, The Outermost House<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/morning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#morning</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/deer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deer</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#animals</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/naturalselection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#naturalselection</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#belief</a>

MunirTHE UNIVERSAL THEOLOGICAL THEORY, PARABLES, GOOD & EVIL, NATURE, THE SHINING ONE(S) AND DARK ONES النظرية اللاهوتية العالمية الموحدة للكون والطبيعة والأمثال والخير والشر والأرواح الساطعة والطاقات المظلمةSee this collection of my theology in link. منير<a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17JiQRGUMX/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17JiQRGUMX/</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Islam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Islam</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Catholicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Catholicism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Buddhism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Hindhism" class="mention hashtag" 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Matt HodgkinsonDarwin and Wallace's original papers to the Linnean Society (published 1858) are fascinating reads, showing how they each developed the concept of natural selection. The foreword by Lyell and Hooker makes clear that Darwin was very reluctant to publish!Both mention artificial selection, but Wallace uses the tendency of domesticated animals to "return to type" in the wild - seen at the time as some sort of stabilising force against change - to bolster the idea of natural selection.On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology. 3:45-62, 1858-9 <a href="https://archive.org/details/darwin-wallace-1858-journalofproceed-00linn/mode/1up?view=theater" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/darwin-wallace-1858-journalofproceed-00linn/mode/1up?view=theater</a><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/OriginOfSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OriginOfSpecies</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/CharlesDarwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CharlesDarwin</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AlfredRusselWallace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlfredRusselWallace</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/LinneanSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinneanSociety</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/TheoryOfEvolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfEvolution</a>

Doug Bostrom"Here, I argue that a substantive and testable Gaia hypothesis must invoke an entity that is planetary in scale, habitability-promoting, and life-specific. This necessitates a resolution to Gaia’s perennial 'Darwinization problem’: there is no a priori reason to expect natural selection within biological populations to favour genotypes conducive to global geochemical/climatic habitability. Three potential routes are outlined for such a resolution, differing in terms of whether the Gaia hypothesis is perceived as: (i) probably incorrect and therefore without need of Darwinization; (ii) potentially correct but associated with some life-induced habitability-promoting influence unconnected to natural selection; and (iii) potentially correct but incomplete without a natural-selection-focused description of habitability. Option (i) downplays the relevance of planetary scale properties to both terrestrial habitability and extra-terrestrial life detection, whereas (ii) sidesteps the Darwinization problem by unacceptably reducing Gaia’s life-specificity, making (iii) preferable because it uniquely preserves Gaia’s core properties. However, this requires that Doolittle’s recent 'It’s-the-song-not-the-singers’ theory be supplemented with a biogeochemical/climatic description of Darwinian fitness that leads to unique predictions."<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/gaia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gaia</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a> <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2024.0087?af=R" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2024.0087?af=R</a>

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American NaturaliﬆAdapt or Freeze: How Harsh Winters Are Reshaping Bluebirds’ SurvivalSummary & Analysis by Baltazar González Chávez of “Natural Selection after Severe Winter Favors Larger and Duller Bluebirds” by Rolland et al. Read now! <a href="https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-2024-Rolland.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-2024-Rolland.html</a><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#winter</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/bluebirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bluebirds</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/naturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#naturalSelection</a>

Beanface42Je…Mais…M’enfin…Non, rien… <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/burnlines" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.tiktok.com/tag/burnlines</a> <a href="https://peculiar.florist/tags/Burnlines" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Burnlines</a> <a href="https://peculiar.florist/tags/TikTok" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TikTok</a> <a href="https://peculiar.florist/tags/NaturalSelection" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a> <a href="https://peculiar.florist/tags/Foolishness" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Foolishness</a> <a href="https://peculiar.florist/tags/MelanomaAt25yo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MelanomaAt25yo</a>

American NaturaliﬆPublished ahead of print with open access: "Natural Selection of Synthetic Gene Drives for Population Suppression Can Favor an Intermediate Strength of Drive" by Beaghton and Burt<a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/736727" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/736727</a><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EEB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EEB</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Gene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gene</a>

formuchdeliberationon Darwin and a theory — for much deliberation… Charles Darwin’s theory on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evolution</a> by natural selection presents the varied links connecting biological facts, and demonstrates the results of these connections, but the theory is a generally misunderstood one in some circles, and in particular amongst fundamentalist believers in the creation story... <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/charlesdarwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#charlesdarwin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/naturalselection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#naturalselection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opinion</a> ... continue reading at write.as:<a href="https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/on-darwin-and-a-theory-for-much-deliberation-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/on-darwin-and-a-theory-for-much-deliberation-3/</a>

Colin PurringtonYesterday I watched a sparrow slide through the chicken wire on my garden fruit enclosure and thus revealing why my berries were disappearing. Per an internet search several weeks ago they are 100% not supposed to be able to do that. As an evolutionary biologist this is absolutely fascinating but as a gardener I am so depressed. <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/sparrows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparrows</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/berries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#berries</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#garden</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birds</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/fruit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fruit</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evolution</a>

Steve Dustcircle 🌹<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Rare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rare</a> Edition of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CharlesDarwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CharlesDarwin</a>'s 'The Origin of Species'<a href="https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/post/rare-edition-of-charles-darwin-s-the-origin-of-species" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/post/rare-edition-of-charles-darwin-s-the-origin-of-species</a> <a href="https://go.eventgroovefundraising.com/b9a105/Campaign/Details" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://go.eventgroovefundraising.com/b9a105/Campaign/Details</a> The culmination of his intellectual journey - the sixth and final lifetime edition of Charles Darwin’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OntheOriginofSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OntheOriginofSpecies</a> by Means of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaturalSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalSelection</a> - is up for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/auction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#auction</a>.

zephry<a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5409073/annas-hummingbird-backyard-feeders" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5409073/annas-hummingbird-backyard-feeders</a>Backyard feeders changed the shape of hummingbird beaks, scientists sayAccording to a recent study in Global Change Biology, a journal focused on environmental change, the use and prevalence of hummingbird feeders — like those red and clear plastic ones filled with homemade sugar water — changed the size and shape of the birds' beaks. The range of the hummingbird also spread from the southern part of California all the way up the West coast into Canada."Very simplified, the bills get longer and they become more slender, and that helps to have a larger tongue inside that can get more nectar from the feeder at a time," says Alejandro Rico-Guevara, a professor of biology at the University of Washington and senior author on the study.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/naturalselection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#naturalselection</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hummingbirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hummingbirds</a>

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