ANN ARBOR—In evolutionary biology, there is a deeply rooted supposition that you can't go home again: Once an organism has evolved specialized traits, it can't return to the lifestyle of its ancestors.
There's even a name for this pervasive idea. Dollo's law states that evolution is unidirectional and irreversible. But this ...
Genetic Study of House Dust Mites Demonstrates Reversible Evolution
Posted On Monday, March 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MICHIGAN Tags: biologists, electron microscope, Evolutionary biology, living organisms, Pyroglyphidae
ANN ARBOR—In evolutionary biology, there is a deeply rooted supposition that you can't go home again: Once an organism has evolved specialized traits, it can't return to the lifestyle of its ancestors.
There's even a name for this pervasive idea. Dollo's law states that evolution is unidirectional and irreversible. But this ...
New Book Connects The Human Community to Its Cosmic Roots
Posted On Friday, January 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ILLINOIS Tags: Evolutionary biology, Neil Shubin, Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Paleontology, the Robert R. Bensley
The 1969 "Woodstock" song by Joni Mitchell, it turns out, was onto something: “We are stardust / billion-year-old carbon.”
University of Chicago evolutionary biologist, Neil Shubin, PhD, makes that connection between astronomical events and the human species in his new book, "The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, ...
