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#evolution

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Honey, We Shrunk the #Cod
Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from #fishing to #urbandevelopment, is driving the #evolution of wild #animals.
Thirty years ago, the cod that swam in the #BalticSea were brag-worthy, with fishing boats hauling in fish the size of human toddlers. Today, such behemoths are vanishingly rare. A typical Eastern Baltic cod could easily fit in someone’s cupped hands.
nytimes.com/2025/06/27/science
archive.ph/oKFSA

The New York Times · Human Activity Is Driving the Evolution of Wild Animals, New Studies FindBy Emily Anthes
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦

This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets

"New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing nearly all visible and ultraviolet light."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#insect #superblack #ultrablack #entomology #VelvetAnt #color #ecology #evolution medium.com/grrlscientist/this-

heinelo
Mein Desktop unter Fedora die Nutzung von Linux und Open Source Software mit entsprechenden Messengern und Mail Anwendungen und ohne Google / Microsoft / Apple und mit KI dann wenn ich sie haben möchte ist und bleibt einfach eine bessere und auch Nachhaltigerer und vor allem Selbs bestimmender Umgang mit Informationstechnologie.
#DailyDesktop
#ShareYourDesktop
#UnixPorn
#fedora42 #gnulinux #Linux #mydesktop #opensource #fedora #libreoffice #fairphone4 #murenacloud #evolution #digitaleselbstbestimmung #onlyoffice #digitaleselbstverteidigung #digitalenachhaltigkeit #signal #telegram #Verschlüsselung #openpgp #rkhunter #lynis #firewall
#firewall
Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志

#Evolution folks, I’m hoping to read in succession Charles Darwin’s
(1) Voyage of the Beagle
(2) On the Origin of Species
(3) The Descent of Man

The Penguin Classics editions look very fine, but does anyone have other favorite editions or versions of these texts they recommend?

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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

Dr Luke Kemp at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge has spent seven years writing a book on the rise and collapse of over 400 societies over 5,000 years.

Patterns emerge.

“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”

Kemp argues that inequality caused the downfall of all the great empires. That solving inequality is our only hope for long term survival of our species. That we are currently self-terminating.

It's a dark but scholarly view of where the world is heading. And because he's Australian he gets to use the line, "Don't be a dick."

theguardian.com/environment/20

@simplicitarian @paulhellyer

The Guardian · ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapseBy Damian Carrington
#Inequality#Anthropology#Evolution
michael

29-Jul-2025
How much time did our ancestors spend up trees? Studying these #chimpanzees might help us find out
A study on savannah-living chimpanzees suggests the need to move safely on thin tree branches could explain why early #hominins that could walk upright kept their tree-climbing adaptations

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

EurekAlert!How much time did our ancestors spend up trees? Studying these chimpanzees might help us find outA new study on savannah-living chimpanzees could help answer some of paleoanthropology’s oldest questions about the origins of walking on two legs. Some theories suggest that the spread of savannahs pushed hominins to walk upright on the ground, a more efficient way to move in this environment. But many early hominins are still well-adapted for climbing. The study found that chimpanzees living in a savannah-mosaic environment continued foraging in trees, and spent most time in trees foraging for the most abundant or nutritious foods. These results suggest that those arboreal adaptations remained critical for early hominins’ survival after bipedalism appeared. They might even have contributed to the development of walking on two feet.  
#science#primates#evolution
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