In snake genes, study finds they evolved 3x faster than other reptiles

March 3, 2024 admin

The sci-fi writer David Brin built his fictitious ‘Uplift Universe’ in a series of novels for two decades from 1980. In the series, a patron race uplifts species of a future universe to a higher order of life. Something similar happened in the earth’s distant past when many species went through bursts of evolutionary innovation,…

Science

Are you sure you contain 10x as many microbes as human cells?

August 28, 2023 admin

“You are more microbes than human.” It is possible you have had this factoid thrown at you, with the thrower claiming that the microbes in our bodies outnumber our own cells 10 to one. But according to an assessment published in Nature Microbiology, this is a myth. In a 2016 study the assessment’s authors cited,…

Science