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#evolution

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john rakestraw

#Predators and #prey: size matters. “A chickadee is almost too small to have any [enemies]. That whimsical fellow called #Evolution, having enlarged the dinosaur until he tripped over his own toes, tried shrinking the chickadee until he was just too big to be snapped up by flycatchers as an insect, and just too little to be pursued by hawks and owls as meat. Then he regarded his handiwork and laughed. Everyone laughs at so small a bundle of large enthusiasms."

--Aldo Leopold
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Daniel

Listening to older electronic music (~ 10 years ago) I realised again just how long single tracks were compared to todays music.

Like, many tracks I am listening to are between 5 and 7 minutes long, whereas today you barely have any track reaching the 3 minute mark (except extended mixes maybe).

Wild how music streaming and social media have changed music in such a short time.

#music#evolution
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YongZS永值生’s new account

The Evolution of Classical Chinese Characters and their Pronunciation in Mandarin.
古漢字字形演變及其官話讀音。
youtu.be/EbxohNCoJHM?si=M4jpuP
Having noticed someone inquiring about classical Chinese bronze inscription characters on Facebook, I therefore recorded a video to illustrate them.
適見Facebook有客詢商周金文，吾遂錄像以闡之。

youtu.be- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
#chinese#character#characters
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Claude Trudel

Botanique
🔸 Il y a un demi-milliard d’années, les plantes, jusqu’alors aquatiques, partaient à la conquête des continents. Une transition qui a métamorphosé la Terre et son atmosphère, ouvrant la voie aux vertébrés terrestres. Des chercheurs ont reconstitué le scénario de cette révolution.
Par Kheira Bettayeb.
lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/pla
#botanique #plantes #évolution #science #biologie #eau #Terre #atmosphère #histoire #révolution #nature #science #cnrs

CNRS Le journalEt les plantes colonisèrent la terre ferme…Il y a un demi-milliard d’années, les plantes, jusqu’alors aquatiques, partaient à la conquête des continents. Une transition qui a métamorphosé la Terre et son atmosphère, ouvrant la voie aux vertébrés terrestres. Des chercheurs ont reconstitué le scénario de cette révolution.
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The Inquisitive Biologist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Once a year my employer has its backlist bargains sale, allowing me to scoop up some amazing books at a great discount. This year's haul was contained to How #Birds Evolved and Nature's Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth #Forests from @princetonupress, and Big Meg: The Story of the Largest, Fiercest and Most Mysterious #Shark from Penguin Books #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #Ornithology #Ecology #Trees #Megalodon #Paleontology #Palaeontology

A top-down photo of three books lying down on a small, brown, wooden table. On the left, How Birds Evolved, showing a collage of five colourful birds fringing the book's cream-white cover. In the middle, Nature's Temples: Nature's Temples, showing yellow drawings of a bird, a mushroom, a a beetle, and some leaves fringing the black cover. On the right, Big Meg, showing a blue-tinted image of a shark's head on a black background with its mouth wide open, the title written in its gape. The out-of-focus background shows the beech-coloured laminate floor.
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Jennifer Leonard

I am very sorry to hear of the passing of Elisabeth Vrba. She was important to the field of evolution, see link. She was also an incredible, inspirational person. Meeting her as a young, female researcher was life changing. Her ability to see, not just the messages in nature, but people, was truly unique. I feel very lucky to have been able to meet her, and she remains one of the most startlingly sharp people I have ever had the pleasure to come across.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025
#Evolution

www.nature.comElisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed DarwinThe biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage.
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