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Bio-models for designing new materials.
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Appreciation for all things beautiful explained by evolution.
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Strange things evolve on 'Sky Islands'.
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Drifting continentals through time.
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Birds that changed a science.
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A keynote speech on sustainability from Earthfest 2011 in Kanab, Utah that's worth catching:
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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 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 ...