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Evolution in action

Skill-like microstructures inside a 3.4-billion-year-old Halamish stone found in Western Australia. Photo: Christopher House, Penn State University

Early life: Plankton fossils have been discovered in three billion year old rocks

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An illustration illustrating what the ancient primate might have looked like in its natural habitat on trees, XIJUN NI

The oldest primate skeleton has been discovered - a creature the size of a mouse that lived 55 million years ago

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A fossil of Eunotosaurus, one of the ancestors of the modern turtle that allowed researchers to decipher the evolution of the turtle's shell

How did turtles get their shells?

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Firefox's dependency network shows the complex nature of technological systems. From the work of Andrei Madlo and Tin Yao Fang.

Survival of the fittest also works in open source software

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Snail-eating snake wraps a Satsuma snail. Photo: from the original article, courtesy of Masaki Hoso

Snails and snakes

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A rainbow fish spits on top of food above the water in Prof. Ronan Segev's laboratory. Photo: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University.

Basic attention processes in humans were discovered through a study of rainbow trout

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One of the many illustrations drawn by Maria Sibylla Marian. From Wikipedia

The 366th birthday of nature book illustrator and researcher Maria Sibylla Marian

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Pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) on peas. Photo: PLOS Biology cover, February 2010. Shipher Wu (photograph) and Gee-way Lin (aphid provision), National Taiwan University.

Who gave the aphid its color?

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Deer mouse. From Wikipedia

One gene - many mutations: the gene that controls the color of the mice's fur has evolved nine times

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The cover of the book "Why evolution is true"

Creationism - a ridiculous and inconsistent theory forced to be studied as a science, following the book "Why evolution is true"

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The habitat where the experiment was carried out to examine the effect of artificial environments on the evolution of species, in the laboratory of Prof. Zvi Abramsky, Ben-Gurion University

The herons and the goldfish - a behavioral game of predator and prey

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The haploid cells of the fungus C. albicans (green), next to diploid cells (blue), and tetraploid cells, which contain four copies of the genetic material. Courtesy photo: Prof. Yehudit Berman, Tel Aviv University

Deadly sex of mushrooms

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Sea snails have mutual sex (each is both male and female). Photo: Ayami Sakizawa, Osaka University

Nudibranch: A species of androgynous sea snail sheds its penis after each mating but also regrows it

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The female of the Australian generation. From Wikipedia

Anti-cuckoo

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Zachary Blount, postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University's Bacon Center for the Study of Evolution in Action

Researchers were able to document how new creatures are created - evolution easily

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Brown mouse lemur in Madagascar. From Wikipedia

Lice don't lie / Christy Wilcox

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A common thistle eats the fruit of the desert mulberry and spits out the seeds while eating. The seeds that remain intact after eating can be seen lying on the ground and between the forelegs of the spiny. Photo: Michal Semoni-Blank

The Technion researchers found how the fruit's defenses turn a seed predator into a quality spreader

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An illustration of a disappointed and grumpy chimpanzee from Darwin's book - The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.

Democracy in nature?

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baby playing From WIKIMEDIA COMMONS CC license

Do babies really look more like dad?

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The white moth Biston betularia that became extinct due to the soot that covered the trees during the industrial revolution and was replaced by a black moth. From Wikipedia

A few words for the skeptics

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A chimpanzee uses a stick to pick fruit from distant branches. Public domain image from Wikipedia

Planet of the Apes: The apes are raised to think they are humans

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Dr. Adi Stern

My vision is to predict an epidemic before it breaks out, by studying the jumps of viruses from animals to humans

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Mitochondrion

The mother's curse

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The peppered moth - a light detail and a dark detail. Photo: Vitaly Gumenyuk. See link to the source of the image at the bottom of the article

The rise and fall of the black moth in England

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Yeasts that have joined multicellular organisms. Photo: University of Minnesota

For the first time: evolution of unicellular to multicellular organisms took place in the laboratory

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