🧬 New paper by Dera et al. in Science Advances proposing a geometric complexity space to map the full morphological diversity of life.

Striking result: life occupies only a tiny, clustered region of all geometrically possible forms, with large heteromorphic regions systematically avoided. The authors argue that this reflects deep physical and developmental constraints shaping evolution.

🌍 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea6945

#Evolution #Complexity #Geometry #Morphology

🧬 New paper by Dera et al. in Science Advances proposing a geometric complexity space to map the full morphological diversity of life.

Striking result: life occupies only a tiny, clustered region of all geometrically possible forms, with large heteromorphic regions systematically avoided. The authors argue that this reflects deep physical and developmental constraints shaping evolution.

🌍 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea6945

#Evolution #Complexity #Geometry #Morphology

The #Evolution of RR daily #Publishing & #SocialMedia workflow is 100x faster than last year; Just need to get cash flow on that level; Might reach some goals sooner than expected #Business @russellrope @ https://russellrope.com 💯📈

The #Evolution of RR daily #Publishing & #SocialMedia workflow is 100x faster than last year; Just need to get cash flow on that level; Might reach some goals sooner than expected #Business @russellrope @ https://russellrope.com 💯📈

Jawbones and other remains found in a Moroccan cave were dated to 773,000 years. They help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/science/morocco-fossils-human-evolution.html

#Evolution #HumanHistory #Anthropology
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#GutMicrobes Played Role in #Evolution of #HumanBrain, New Study Suggests

https://www.sci.news/biology/gut-microbes-human-brain-evolution-14461.html

Jawbones and other remains found in a Moroccan cave were dated to 773,000 years. They help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/science/morocco-fossils-human-evolution.html

#Evolution #HumanHistory #Anthropology
@nytimes.com

How a #parasite gave up sex to find more hosts—and why its victory won't last https://phys.org/news/2026-01-parasite-gave-sex-hosts-victory.html

Host range expansion of asexual parasite can be explained by loss of adaptions in Muller’s Ratchet https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65843-4

"an asexual lineage of #Giardia managed to infect a wider range of hosts than its sexual ancestor... at a cost. Because these #parasites don't exchange genetic material, harmful mutations build up over time, leading to eventual collapse"

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution

How a #parasite gave up sex to find more hosts—and why its victory won't last https://phys.org/news/2026-01-parasite-gave-sex-hosts-victory.html

Host range expansion of asexual parasite can be explained by loss of adaptions in Muller’s Ratchet https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65843-4

"an asexual lineage of #Giardia managed to infect a wider range of hosts than its sexual ancestor... at a cost. Because these #parasites don't exchange genetic material, harmful mutations build up over time, leading to eventual collapse"

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution

Billions of years ago, #life crossed a threshold. Single cells started to band together, and a world of formless, unicellular life was on course to evolve into the riot of shapes and functions of multicellular life today, from ants to pear trees to people.

It's a transition as momentous as any in the history of life, and until recently we had no idea how it happened.

But the momentous transition to #multicellular life may not have been so hard after all.

The evidence comes from multiple directions. The evolutionary histories of some groups of organisms record repeated transitions from single-celled to multicellular forms, suggesting the hurdles could not have been so high.

Genetic comparisons between simple multicellular organisms and their single-celled relatives have revealed that much of the molecular equipment needed for cells to band together and coordinate their activities may have been in place well before multicellularity evolved.

And clever experiments have shown that in the test tube, single-celled life can evolve the beginnings of multicellularity in just a few hundred generations—an evolutionary instant.

#biology #evolution
https://www.science.org/content/article/momentous-transition-multicellular-life-may-not-have-been-so-hard-after-all

Billions of years ago, #life crossed a threshold. Single cells started to band together, and a world of formless, unicellular life was on course to evolve into the riot of shapes and functions of multicellular life today, from ants to pear trees to people.

It's a transition as momentous as any in the history of life, and until recently we had no idea how it happened.

But the momentous transition to #multicellular life may not have been so hard after all.

The evidence comes from multiple directions. The evolutionary histories of some groups of organisms record repeated transitions from single-celled to multicellular forms, suggesting the hurdles could not have been so high.

Genetic comparisons between simple multicellular organisms and their single-celled relatives have revealed that much of the molecular equipment needed for cells to band together and coordinate their activities may have been in place well before multicellularity evolved.

And clever experiments have shown that in the test tube, single-celled life can evolve the beginnings of multicellularity in just a few hundred generations—an evolutionary instant.

#biology #evolution
https://www.science.org/content/article/momentous-transition-multicellular-life-may-not-have-been-so-hard-after-all

#GutMicrobes Played Role in #Evolution of #HumanBrain, New Study Suggests

https://www.sci.news/biology/gut-microbes-human-brain-evolution-14461.html

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?? VIRAL STORY: Baltinglass Hill: Ireland's Forgotten Gobekli Tepi?
?? Trending with 100K+ readers! Prepare to be amazed! ??
https://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion-guest-authors/baltinglass-hill-006018
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #Evolution #MustRead #Civilization #HistoryFacts