Teaching Evolution

Stuff for the classroom

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Survival: the first 3.8 billion years

Lisa Feldman Barrett ponders Joseph LeDoux’s study on how conscious brains evolved.

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Education: How to win at evolution

Stuart West and helpers compare the cut and thrust of three games that explore life's greatest competition.

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Challenges in evidencing the earliest traces of life

Abiotic processes can mimic or alter the biogenic traces of early life but advances in micro- and nanoscale analyses provide evidence that—with geological contextualization—improves our ability to address this issue.

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A flock of lawn flamingos can pick a T-rex clean in under 90 seconds

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nature is brutal

[darwinsdilemma]

Fight or flight, take your choice.

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The discovery could one day let doctors prevent the infection by allowing E. coli to pass harmlessly through the body.

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Leafcutter Ants at work in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest

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Lonesome George (A Musical Memorial) | SKUNK BEAR

A touching tribute to a world-famous tortoise that couldn't find a mate. ↓↓Links & Info↓↓ SUBMIT A QUESTION HERE: http://skunkbear.tumblr.com/ask/ SUBSCRIBE:...

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Some great #ScienceValentines from years past - and here’s a new one: Our latest episode is a song that explores the science of love.

[darwinsdilemma]

Hacking conservation: how a tech start-up aims to save biodiversity

Standard efforts have failed to slow the pace of extinctions, so Conservation X Labs is trying a fresh approach.

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Plant extinction 'bad news for all species'

Almost 600 plant species have been lost from the wild in the last 250 years, according to a study.

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Small, furry and powerful: are mouse lemurs the next big thing in genetics?

More-human than mice, the world’s tiniest primates may just have what it takes to become the next top model organism.

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Why we don’t kill mockingbirds.

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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable

Descartes

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hell yea this fucking owns

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Natural selection on wheels.

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fullmoonpagan:

Caterpillar toes!!!

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An evolutionary fine tuning.

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A rare nautilus, Allonautilus scrobiculatus, spotted for the first time in more than 30 years. Peter Ward, a University of Washington marine biologist, found it off the coast of Papua New Guinea. It’s on the right, with its distinctive slimy shell, swimming with the more common Nautilus pompilius. Peter Ward / Via washington.edu

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Universe’s baby picture wins $3 million

Image joins 13 other winners in lucrative Breakthrough Prizes.

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