9 stories tagged evolution, newest first.
52 points by gmays | 5 comments
University of Cambridge news article on research suggesting the spread of collagen-degrading enzymes to aerobic bacteria explains the decline of soft-bodied fossils after the Ediacaran.
89 points by maxall4 | 36 comments
Phys.org news article on a sticky alpine flower found to digest insects, confirming Darwin's prediction; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
543 points by jbotz | 277 comments
A Dynomight newsletter essay asking why the human liver is so regenerative compared with the rest of the body.
9 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments
A Dynomight blog essay asking why many parts of the human body seem poorly designed while the liver is remarkably robust and regenerative.
548 points by bdr | 179 comments
Crooked Timber blog post by Doug Muir explaining why the rough-skinned newt of the Pacific Northwest is so extraordinarily toxic.
371 points by smusamashah | 87 comments
MIT interactive project page presenting a virtual petri dish where digital creatures evolve eyes from scratch to replay the evolution of vision.
452 points by akkartik | 53 comments
A Crooked Timber essay by Doug Muir on early armored cephalopods like Plectronoceras and the evolutionary arrival of jawed predators with lips.
416 points by harscoat | 347 comments
arXiv paper by Stuart Kauffman and Andrea Roli arguing that the emergence of life is an expected phase transition, using autocatalytic sets and the theory of the adjacent possible.
322 points by janandonly | 220 comments
Smithsonian Smart News article from 2013 about Prototaxites, giant 24-foot fungal spires that dotted Earth's landscape before trees took over.