Reden wir über Macht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=183VGRw2rfo

OTD, only 100 years ago, March 13, 1925.

Tennessee, USA, legislature enacted what was called Butler Act:

“Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities, Normals and all other public schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the State, to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”

Less than three months later, high-school teacher John T. Scopes was charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

The law was repealed only in 1967.

Is anything changed there?

https://depts.washington.edu/genomicssalon/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/butler-act.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/event/Scopes-Trial

#evolution : any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition

- French: Évolution

- German: die Evolution

- Italian: evoluzione

- Portuguese: evolução

- Spanish: evolución

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The oldest human face from western #Europe, a 1.4 MA old type of #Homoerectus, #Atapuerca, N Spain

'Excavations at Sima del Elefante paint a picture of lush meadows and woodlands more than 1.1m years ago with oaks, pines, juniper and hazel trees in abundance. Rivers cutting through the landscape drew water voles and mice, hippos, bison and deer. Quartz and flint tools have also been recovered alongside animal bones bearing cut marks from butchering.'

##hominin #evolution #SimadelElefante

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/12/bone-fragments-of-oldest-known-human-face-in-western-europe-found-in-spain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

'Pink' is the oldest ancient human 'face' ever found in Western Europe
By Anna Salleh

Bone fragments discovered in Spanish cave are putting a face to the earliest ancient humans to arrive in Western Europe, more than a million years ago.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-13/spain-fossil-face-human-earliest-western-europe/105038392

New study finds that domestic cats traveled the Silk Road to China about 1,400 years ago.

From @Smithsonianmag: https://flip.it/h-58US

#Birds' high #blood_sugar defies #aging expectations.

#glucose_metabolism #protein_glycation #hyperglycaemia #evolution

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-birds-high-blood-sugar-defies.html

In Spain, a remarkable place,
Bone fragments of human face.
Oldest known in the West,
History at its best,
Unveiling the past's sacred grace.

#GuardianLimerick #Archaeology #Evolution #Spain #Fossils #Science #Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/12/bone-fragments-of-oldest-known-human-face-in-western-europe-found-in-spain

Gene flow and habitat heterogeneity shape coexistence dynamics of Arctic charr morphs in connected lakes. Han Xiao, et al
Submitted to Molecular Ecology,

preprint on Authorea.

#ecology #Evolution #popgen #charr #salmonid #diversity #geneticdiversity #metapopulation #speciation #geometricMorphometrics

https://www.authorea.com/users/588916/articles/1254729-gene-flow-and-habitat-heterogeneity-shape-coexistence-dynamics-of-arctic-charr-morphs-in-connected-lakes

Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/12/bone-fragments-of-oldest-known-human-face-in-western-europe-found-in-spain #Archaeology #Evolution #Fossils #Science #Europe #Spain

Deep-sea fish study reveals evolutionary marvels in Earth's hadal zone https://phys.org/news/2025-03-deep-sea-fish-reveals-evolutionary.html

#Evolution and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867425000315

"they confirmed a century-old hypothesis about deep-sea #fish evolution involving two distinct pathways. 'Ancient survivors' colonized the deep sea before the #Cretaceous mass #extinction, while 'new immigrants' account for the majority of modern #DeepSea species that emerged after the #MassExtinction."

The Aspen Proposal suggests that a widespread understanding of how evolution shaped human nature is key to creating a sustainable civilization.

Those of us who focus primarily on our rights and freedoms are ignoring our deeply social nature.

Focusing on our needs and responsibilities is a much better way to build a better world.

http://www.aspenproposal.org

Daily report

Here are today's most popular trending hashtags on our website ️:

#evolution, #scienceforall, #elonmusk, #landscape, #selfhosting, #openscience, #spacex

Stay tuned!

Scientists date remains of an ancient child that resembles both humans and Neanderthals.

From @AssociatedPress: "The child’s remains were discovered 27 years ago in a rock shelter called Lagar Velho in central Portugal."

https://flip.it/jvHJN8

For the Molecular Ecologist, I wrote about a cool recent preprint that shows how complicated the connections really are between landscape genomic scans for locally adapted loci and actual locally adaptive function

https://www.molecularecologist.com/2025/03/10/association-scans-are-just-the-first-step-to-understanding-local-adaptation/

Welcome to the Roof of the World!
Our latest issue is dedicated to the remarkable #biology, #ecology, #diversity, and #evolution of the #Himalayas, a region that has captured hearts and minds for generations!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13171
@WileyEcolEvol
#JSE #systematics #PlantSci

#Evolution of plant network: 600 million years of stress https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250310134211.htm

"Evolution whispers while survival screams. Hawaiian crickets silencing their songs to outsmart parasitic flies—nature’s quiet rebellion. Adaptation is poetry in motion. #Evolution #Nature"

Incredible to see nature's adaptability in action! Hawaiian crickets evolving quieter chirps to dodge parasitic flies is a reminder of life's resilience. #Nature #Evolution