Natural Science Forum / Biology / Evolution / September 2006

Hello from Spain,
I've written a post about the Neanderthals that are in all of us, and
if you ever get to read it, I would beg for your invaluable opinion.
Neanderthal vs. Cro-Magnon

What methods do scientist use to determine if a trait was Sexually or
Naturally selected. If you wish to use a suggested example I would say
short hair withing Humans, or Scales-->Feathers-->Wings. Or Ant Eaters
have long noses, this could be because they were sexy and thus caused

Behind the idea of replication is a false assumption that life is separate
from other life. That each life form is separate. Yet that is an assumption
that we've accepted without proof.
And its an assumption that I don't want to take without some proof.

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For those interested in why we (humans) behave the way we do (warring,
biased, polarized) there is a new theory to consider. It claims that we
are programmed to be tribal territorial animals, and to treat our
beliefs as territory to be fiercely defended. That would certainly

Does anyone here think they might understand
the concept of (or accept the actual occurrences behind the notion of)
that a significant percentage of all the lifetime situations that
individuals were faced with in the phylogeny of fauna some were (and can be

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A new wiki-project has been started at the University of Georgia, which aims
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What finess value does being poisonous upon ingestion have to
animal prey? I am not talking about poison that is actually applied to
the predator by the prey biting, but to the passive ingestion of
posion.

Did anyone really use this term *before* them, or explicitly expressed
the same definition they gave of the pattern of macroevolution?
I have the impression that PE is somewhat redundant, potentially
implicit in the modern synthesis, and that PG is more a fictional

A discussion in talk.origins cross-posted here to get some
comments from population genetics experts.  Joe?
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"Peter F" 19eimc_minus19@ozemail.com.au     wrote:

explanatory

The selfish gene that learned to cooperate
Kurt Kleiner
GENES are famously selfish, but they can also be sweetly cooperative. Now
for the first time a gene for altruism has been discovered that smooths the

Does anyone here know of genetic research  bioelectrically induced
derepression of alelles? In my back yard experiments with plants at
microvolt/miliamp ELF levels I have produced new, stable and
self-reproducing plants that are radically different from the original

In A Technical Tour De Force, Scientists Take A Global View Of The Epigenome
A collaboration between researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological
Studies and the University of California at Los Angeles captured the
genome-wide DNA methylation pattern of the plant Arabidopsis ...