Jon Rosen Helped Stephen A. Smith Nail a Complex Deal With ESPN. Can He Aid Others?
#Variety #News #BobbyFlay #Evolutionary #JonRosen #StephenASmith
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jon-rosen-talent-deals-stephen-a-smith-espn-bobby-flay-1236410302/
What do you get if you combine #grammars, #constraints, #evolutionary algorithms, and #Python in one? A mighty fuzzer! Check out our latest #FANDANGO work, to appear at #ISSTA2025:
https://publications.cispa.de/articles/standard/FANDANGO_Evolving_Language-Based_Testing/28769252?file=53591066
To try out Fandango yourself, check out its home page: https://fandango-fuzzer.github.io/
Variation of tooth traits in ecologically specialized and sympatric morphs
2024-12-21 | Preprint biorxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.18.629189
Guđbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir et al
We examined variation in dental traits in four sympatric morphs of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) which differ in feeding specialisations, head and jaw bone morphology.
Submitted to #evolutionary #biology
#evolution #biodiversity #ecology #fish #Salmonid
#maxilla #premaxilla #palatine #bones w #teeth
Carbenes in Space? New Discovery Could Explain Life’s Cosmic Origins
https://scitechdaily.com/carbenes-in-space-new-discovery-could-explain-lifes-cosmic-origins/
#Astrochemistry #Biochemistry #EarthScience #Evolutionary #Biology #OrganicChemistry #UVRadiation #carbene #life
Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger-evolution-symbiosis-organelle/ 1 “Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years #evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got #plants”
Why Do #Whales Go Through #Menopause?
New study argues that the change brought these #females an #evolutionary advantage — and perhaps did the same for #humans. Loking at the biology of the five #whale species, researchers argue menopause gave animals an evolutionary advantage. For example, it could have prevented older females from being pregnant at same time as their daughters, avoiding resource conflicts that would hurt both of their offspring. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/science/whale-menopause.html
https://archive.ph/dVCrS
From Frederic Fol Leymarie on LinkedIn, a short video sequence on the origins of #art that is both #computational and #evolutionary 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-S9iOF0uMI
The #humanrace as a viable #evolutionary #species is now in an existential race against #environmental change that will make our very existence problematic, if not impossible.
#CoolPaper alert 
So pleased that this is out in published form
@PLOSBiology
The #evolutionary #origins of eukaryotic innate #immune systems have firmly crossed prokaryotic divide. Their study is fascinating, provides really interesting insights & avenues of future discovery
Ed Culbertson & Tera Levin reveal origins of 3 families of #antiviral proteins: CD-NTases (incl #cGAS), #STINGs & #Viperins; each connecting #animal & #bacterial immunity
The #evolutionary puzzle of #samesex behaviours. How widespread are they across species?
https://theconversation.com/how-and-why-did-homosexual-behaviour-evolve-in-humans-and-other-animals-215331?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
An #evolutionary tree of #dog breeds
http://sci-news.com/biology/evolution-dog-breeds-04823.html
@ scinewscom #phylogeny
Parker et al. 2017
#Chalcidoid #wasps: unprecedented diversity of life histories, and #evolutionary success stories
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790317303366
Scientists have long known that the miniature feather-tailed #possums in Australia and the island of New Guinea – members of the #marsupial family Acrobatidae – were #evolutionary cousins, but where they started their long evolutionary journey has been a bit of a mystery – until now.
#Paleontology #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/10/pal10052301.html
Lichens are in an #evolutionary race against #climate change.
The symbiotic organisms could need more than a million years to adapt to just 1 degree Celsius of warming.
Scientists have long known that #lichens grow at a staggeringly slow rate. Some are thousands of years old and grow just millimeters each year. Now, new research suggests lichens are struggling to keep up with the changing climate.
#biology #evolution https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lichens-are-in-an-evolutionary-race-against-climate-change-180979587/
A brief video rundown of the functionally #extinct Yangtze softshell turtle after losing the last known female in the world. The video covers the #evolutionary history we stand to lose, the recent status of the species, and the cultural aspect this species holds in Vietnam.
(4/n)
..., self-preservation certainly is a defendable concept in the #evolutionary process, so I'd like to propose an alternative
6th #LawOfRobotics (s/:for which I might be hunted down by the presumed #superintelligence some day, #Terminator style./s):
"An artificial intelligence, even if it is biological, must always have an #autodestruct mechanism which it cannot deactivate."
In other words, humanity must always be able to "pull the plug"....
Bruce Lieberman, professor of #ecology & #evolutionary biology and senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the KU Biodiversity Institute & Natural #History #Museum, sought to use steam-engine history to test the merits of “competitive exclusion,” a long-held idea in paleontology that #species can drive other species to #extinction through competition.
#EarthScience #Biology #Paleontology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/03/es03292302.html
200 yrs ago
Whether there be a god
& whatever be its nature;
whether or not we have
an immortal soul
or whatever may be our state
after death,
I can have no fear
of having to suffer
for the study of nature
and the search for truth.
#AlfredRusselWallace 
#evolutionary #biology #zoology #biogeography #socialreform
Okay... #introduction
Hi! I'm Merlin, or Cloudjumper/Cloudjump3r online. I'm in the north of #germany ,previously in Toronto, #Canada. I love #music and #production and lots of #art in many different #media. I used to teach #gameaudio with a focus on #narrative & #immersion.
Obviously I like #games but my main background is in #gifted & #neurodivergent #psychology, and #evolutionary #astrology & #counselling. I'm also #2e myself.
I #stream regularly on #twitch giving free #music #feedback.
#December 18, 1829
#OTD Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, #French #Naturalist, #Biologist, & #Academic, died #Lonely, #Blind, & #Impoverished in #Paris.
Regarded as the #Father of #Evolutionary #Theory, he paved the way for #Darwin.
He was an early thinker on #ContinentalDrift.
As a #Botanist at the Royal #Botanical #Garden & #Herbarium, he #Ingeniously saved the garden during the #French #Revolution by #Quietly renaming it w/ a #Humble #Sign that simply read The Garden of #Plants.
