Status Updates From 30-Second Evolution: The 50...

“Humans have enormous brains that make us smart, but we are not smart enough to work out exactly why!” 🤣

“Controversial studies suggest that people prefer mates who smell different to themselves. This difference in odour is caused by the MHC, which controls the expression of cell surface receptors & plays a key role in immunity. Intriguingly, it has been suggested that women taking the contraceptive pill prefer males with MHC similar to their own, while those not taking it prefer different odours.”

“Sex can be dangerous. The female praying mantis bites the head off the male during mating; snails fire a love dart into their mate as part of courtship.”

“Fig wasps can choose their offspring sex; fertilized eggs become female, unfertilized male.”

[If I were a fig wasp, I would’ve chosen XX;
every
single
time]

“Social behaviour can seem counterintuitive from an evolutionary standpoint, but in reality social behaviours increase the ability to survive and pass on genes.”

[و اینگونه بود که من منقرض شدم‌😂]

“No scientific theory is worth anything unless it enables us to predict something which is actually going on. Until that is done, theories are a mere game of words.”
- J.B.S Haldane

“Darwin noted that extinction happens gradually. A species dwindles, until competition or some unlucky event finally nudges it over the edge. […] Now that humans can colonize every environment from seabed to space, we have ourselves become a major cause of extinction; come the next big extinction, will we die like dinosaurs or brazen it out like brachiopods?”

چه چهارشنبه زیباییه 🎉💃

“Why did most mammals stop laying egg? The credit or blame probably goes to virus -a distance relative of HIV that has infected mammals so thoroughly that there are now thousands of old broken copies of the virus littering your DNA. Part of one virus, called syncytin, still works. Syncytin effectively transforms the pregnant mother into a walking egg by passing nutrition and oxygen across the womb.” 🤯

چه دوشنبه‌ی زیباییه 🥂

“The habitats that appear most hospitable, and in which the widest verity of species flourish, are the very hardest places to make a living. There is truly no such thing as an easy life.”

“An individual organism does not evolve; it is the population that evolves and diverges over the generations.”

“[…] In 1860 Bishop Samuel Wilberforce asked his debating opponent Thomas Huxley “Is it on your grandmother’s or on your grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?” To which Huxley replied: “I would rather be descended from an ape than a man who uses his great faculties and influence for the purpose of ridicule.””

“Adapt or die: it’s nature’s most famous imperative.”

اوپنینگش برگریزان بود :))