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Ecology

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 10, 2019
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Cell biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Who knew bacteria could trap light without chlorophyll?

Denyse O'Leary
August 10, 2019
Cell biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design, Plants
We are “trained,” if you like, to expect certain discoveries (dark matter, for example). Then we learn something significant that really surprises us and allows for new thinking about, for example, ecology. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 16, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Ecology, Intelligent Design
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AI will save Gaia, says James Lovelock at nearly 100 years of age

Denyse O'Leary
July 16, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Ecology, Intelligent Design
The Gaia hypothesis started out as science, then discovered weed. But a digital Gaia movement for the 21st century will not, one suspects, be hippies. Maybe not as nice. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 4, 2019
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Darwinism, Ecology, Intelligent Design
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The incorrect insect egg model relied too much on model organisms

Denyse O'Leary
July 4, 2019
Darwinism, Ecology, Intelligent Design
Krauze: the organisms we have chosen to represent invertebrates, like C. elegans and D. melanogaster, are simpler than the average invertebrate. And this means that we're likely underestimating the complexity of the last common ancestor of animals (Metazoa). ... Attempts to correct for this bias has found that the last common Metazoan ancestor was surprisingly complex, seemingly 'overdesigned' for its simple morphology. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 23, 2019
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Ecology, extinction, Intelligent Design
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Insectologists swat insects-are-doomed paper

Denyse O'Leary
March 23, 2019
Ecology, extinction, Intelligent Design
The temptation for some seems to be to resort to apocalypse voodoo to demonstrate a crisis, at the expense of the methods that make scientists worth listening to, as an alternative to supermarket tabloids. File this one with: The real reasons people don’t "trust science" Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 17, 2019
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Ecology, Intelligent Design, stasis
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Researchers: Coralline red algae existed 300 million years earlier than thought

Denyse O'Leary
January 17, 2019
Ecology, Intelligent Design, stasis

Four hundred and thirty million years ago, according to ScienceDaily: The discovery made by FAU palaeontologists Dr. Sebastian Teichert, Prof. Dr. Axel Munnecke and their Australian colleague Dr. William Woelkerling has far-reaching consequences. ‘Our finds mean that we must now look at the fossil record in a completely new way’, explains Dr. Sebastian Teichert. Up to now, a higher age for coralline red algae was thought to be so unlikely that fossils found in layers of rock older than the Cretaceous Period were not even considered as coralline red algae simply due to their age. The fossil record comprises all documented occurrences of fossils and is the essential source of information about how life on Earth developed. A re-evaluation of Read More ›