Where ants come from?
I am often perplexed with how many ants I have in my house. If someone could dissolve the whole house but the ants; I think you will still see a skeleton of my house made out of ants. Anyway, I lov...
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On Braitenberg's Vehicles, Compound Polygons, and Evolutionary Developmental Structural Complexity
The discrete evolution of phenotypes and nervous systems can provide much information about the structures that carry forward the evolutionary process. There are also relationships at the interse...
Read It Review ItThe Diel Hypothesis and Theory of Evolution
Abstract Hypothesis: The light/dark oscillation produced by the sun and rotating earth and the change in the period of that oscillation have played a more pivotal role in the evolution of life...
Read It Review ItSegmentation, a question of boundaries
Annelids, arthropods and vertebrates show a remarkable morphological diversity (Chipman, 2010). Beneath this multiplicity of shapes and forms lies a common pattern of body organization—a trunk divi...
Read It Review ItSpiral cleavage, an oblique matter
By the end of the 19th century, a series of biologists had dedicated themselves to following and discovering the fate of individual cells of an embryo during ontogeny. These works, known as cell li...
Read It Review ItLarvae as the epitome of evolution
[previous section: What a larva is] Francis M. Balfour set the pace on discussions about the evolutionary importance of larvae by addressing many of the fundamental questions regarding larval evolu...
Read It Review ItEndless larval forms most beautiful: what a larva is
The Latin word lārva means evil spirit, ghost or mask1. In the 18th century, the naturalist Carolus Linnaeus was the first to employ the word larva to describe a stage in the life of an animal in w...
Read It Review ItSociocultural beliefs and attitudes in Autism and the effects on families in South Korea
This paper examines the effect of cultural influences in South Korea on autism diagnosis and treatment. The lack of information, statistics, and awareness of autism in South Korea is reflected in n...
Read It Review ItImbalance is not an impediment: understanding the natural imbalances of Sex and B-chromosomes in species by understanding cancer karyotypes
Cancers are defined by abnormal karyotypes, displaying ever-changing structural and numerical abnormalities. Such plasticity of the karyotype underlies the evolution of cancer cells (Navin et al. ...
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