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Riled Up is a journal of science, the environment, exploration, new technology, and related commentary.  Contributors include scientists, explorers, engineers, and others who provide perspectives and context not typically offered in general news circulation.  For interested readers, additional resources are included.

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Map of Life

One of the general principals of evolution is that "if a niche is empty, something will evolve to fill it". Over and over again since life on Earth appeared nearly 4 billion years ago, filling niches presented by new environments-- islands, mountain tops, canyon walls, geothermal pools, etc. --has constantly occurred. What is less known is a subset of this evolutionary process called: convergent evolution which produces organisms that have structures with similar appearances or ...
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Biogeography as CSI 'tool kit'

Biogeography is the foundation of modern evolutionary science. When Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace conducted their original 19th Century investigations of plant and animal diversity-- becoming the basis of evolution  --they were actually studying the influence of biogeography on the occurrence and distribution of every living thing on Earth. Students learn this starting in high school biology class and the same principals follow into any advanced university research in the biological ...
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