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Science Alert.  ✒ Published in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species made a number of bold claims about the nature of evolution – including the suggestion that an animal species with greater diversity in its line will produce more sub-species, too.

By David Nield

This assumption is not as obvious as you might think at first. Only a couple of years ago, this hypothesis was finally found to be true for birds. Now, researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK have shown that Darwin was right on this point for mammals, too: Mammal subspecies are indeed important in evolutionary terms, and perhaps more so than previously thought.

Apart from being an important contribution to our understanding of evolution in general, the findings could also be useful in ongoing conservation efforts – helping experts to figure out which species need to be protected in order to ensure their survival. 

"My research investigating the relationship between species and the variety of subspecies proves that subspecies play a critical role in long-term evolutionary dynamics and in future evolution of species," says biological anthropologist Laura van Holstein.

Continue reading @ Science Alert. 

A Crucial Idea Darwin Had On Evolution Was Just Confirmed

Science Alert.  ✒ Published in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species made a number of bold claims about the nature of evolution – including the suggestion that an animal species with greater diversity in its line will produce more sub-species, too.

By David Nield

This assumption is not as obvious as you might think at first. Only a couple of years ago, this hypothesis was finally found to be true for birds. Now, researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK have shown that Darwin was right on this point for mammals, too: Mammal subspecies are indeed important in evolutionary terms, and perhaps more so than previously thought.

Apart from being an important contribution to our understanding of evolution in general, the findings could also be useful in ongoing conservation efforts – helping experts to figure out which species need to be protected in order to ensure their survival. 

"My research investigating the relationship between species and the variety of subspecies proves that subspecies play a critical role in long-term evolutionary dynamics and in future evolution of species," says biological anthropologist Laura van Holstein.

Continue reading @ Science Alert. 

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2 comments:

  1. Skin-the-Goat1:24 PM, November 15, 2020

    Evolution is a theory. The Big Bang us a theory. Gravity is a theory. Relativity is a theory. All of these theories have been adopted by mainstream science as fact. Science cannot explain where everything came from. They have built a tower of knowledge on a crumbling foundation of lies and theory. The only thing that comes from a big bang explosion is chaos and disorder.Does our beautiful Earth look like the work of an explosion?

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    1. Steve R8:55 PM, November 15, 2020

      You are mistaking the scientific meaning of the word 'theory' for the everyday usage behind it.

      A scientific theory is a testable hypothesis which establishs whether something is correct in our observation of the natural world.

      The everyday lay usage of the word theory is something akin to 'best guess'.

      " Science cannot explain where everything came from."

      Science is an umbrella term for many different scientific fields, which are you refering to? Cosmology for the events after the rapid expansion of gases born of the singularity or the evolution of different species? Neith have anything to do with each other, so which do you refer to?

      "They have built a tower of knowledge on a crumbling foundation of lies and theory"

      Gravity is a theory. If you don't believe it, jump out of a 5th story window.

      "The only thing that comes from a big bang explosion is chaos and disorder."

      Until it cools and condenses. One only needs to look around to see much disorder and chaos so what's your point?

      "Does our beautiful Earth look like the work of an explosion?"

      No because it isn't the work of an explosion, it's a planet like one of billions in our galaxy formed throughout aeons of Time and movement.

      Seems you are one of those idiotic sky-daddy, sadist, zombie worshippers who feel the need to voluntarily become a slave to a figmant of your own delusion and attempt to pontificate to others of your virtue. Fuck knows how you drifted in here but your bullshit doesn't wash with me. Toodles.





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