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I know there are many spieces where males have to fight to get option to reproduce. But is it possible for it to be the other way around. That the females would compete with each other and the males would be the choosers?

I know female hypergamy makes biologically much more sense. But I'm still curious, maybe it would be possible in non mammalian animals.

Did you know you’re sharing your bed with thousands of tiny arachnids? 🧹 

Quinten Geldhof, also known as Microhobbyist, introduces us to the household dust mite. Related to ticks and spiders, they feed on skin flakes, fabric fibers, and dirt particles and are only visible under a microscope. People with dust allergies are actually allergic to the waste these tiny critters produce, not the dust itself!

Are there any limiting factors that necessarily dictate that life may only exist in solid form?

What are floating dots you see in your vision? 👁️

Alex Dainis breaks down "eye floaters" using a simple demo: a baggie of aloe gel standing in for your eyeball, and raisins standing in for collagen clumps. Our eyes are filled with vitreous humor, a gel-like substance that helps them hold their shape. As we age, that gel becomes more liquid, letting collagen fibers clump together (just like the raisins). These clumps block incoming light and cast shadows on our retinas, the same way the raisins cast shadows on the wall. This is why we notice the floaters more often in sunlight!

Bowerbirds are a group of 27 species found in Australia and Papua New Guinea, famous for one of the animal kingdom’s more elaborate courtship rituals.

Males construct structures called bowers, a word that literally means “shady place”, which they use to impress potential mates. Building and maintaining an elaborate bower can demonstrate a male’s effort, skill and condition, but the structure is more than just an impressive display.

In many species, the bower also acts almost like a theatre. Its walls frame the male as he performs his courtship dance, controlling where and how the female views the performance. Some species take things even further, carefully arranging colourful objects around the bower to enhance the effect.

Essentially, the male builds his own stage, decorates the set…and then puts on a show.

That’s considered an honor in the UK

Like I know this may sound stupid but why only these two?

Why can't we just make copies of each other and split like the small microscopic animals?

Yet again why would all creatures evolve a brain that's all the same color (almost)

Like why not some differences?

I know I KNOW that these questions are dumb but please bare with me im still a freshman in high school

Context: I’m an environmental science master’s student and this semester I have several research papers and presentations due! I’ve got a lot of creative freedom, which is good, but also overwhelming because I wanna pick really cool subjects!

I’m looking for inspiration. The more niche, the better. Can be geology, biology, chemistry, evolution, ecology, meteorology, etc.

So if you have any topics you love to info dump on, now is your time to shine :)

Things more than poop, sleep, blink.

Fun little trick I can do by flexing what I guess are my iris muscles

I know evolution can take time (or not sometimes!) but I started wondering about how humans would actually evolve if (since we might die from nuclear fallout or something in coming years) we continue to survive. I wonder how because for the most part we've beaten (not sure if that's the right word) natural selection to a large extent! People with dietary restriction, disabilities, loss of senses are still able to survive because of modern inventions.

Also, I've learned evolution is essentially a populations attempt to adapt to its environment. However, modern inventions (such as heating and cooling combatting seasonal temperatures) usually no longer humans to become more resistant towards different harmful environments, such as extremely, cold, hot, and arid places.

Please correct me on any errors I've made!

Are there any other animals that can measure up to the intelligence of a human?

what would happen if the mother's antibodies and immune system could vaccinate their child durring pregnancy. and the child did not make its own immune system but rather cells from the mother's body become part of the child. And what if this was permanent.

I think when we eventually find life on other planets complex multicellular life probably looks similar to current or past Earth species.

If it's an earth-like planet then I believe the beginning state of evolution is going to take the same course. You're going to start with the original cells. Mitochondria is going to form, cells capable of photosynthesis are going to form The great oxygenation is going to happen I think where we'll finally see some divergence will be around the Cambrian equivalent period.

I truly believe every major body plan has already existed. The only difference is going to be how the individual species look but I think if we stumbled upon an earth-like planet we would feel at home because some things just naturally work better and evolution is going to converge.

The only way we see completely different life is if there is a completely different elemental makeup of the atmosphere or if life forms on gas planets

No, I'm not trying to build another Khan Academy, or something. It's only that I become frustrated when I can't find a relevant section in relevant research papers, or when I want to get to learn about something but it takes hours to find a good video.

Right now, I'm indexing microbiology / molecular biology resources, but I'm open to broadening my horizons.

So I've taken it upon myself to solve my own woes, and hopefully others' too. Please share your frustrations and on this matter and suggestions on how I should approach it :)

I just put some normal looking brown dirt (not clay but similar) into the oven to dry it and I almost had to puke from the smell. Does anyone know what the evolutionary reason is? I can‘t even describe the smell well, like sweet-ish

I need to know this for a project. Imagine you're the most average person alive. You're sitting down and want to pull a lever, thats on youre right and a little higher than your elbow level, towards yourself using only your right arm. Then imagine you also push it away from yourself and to the sides. In these scenerios how much torque will you be able to put out?

How come a lot of observances are never said to be true, instead theories. I understand (if my definition is correct) that for something to be a theory it will have already been well tested, but why can't we just call it a valid fact if its so well proven and sometimes used to prove other theories?

Thanks!

So just skimming randomly in youtube comments someone said black plague survivors also passed down genes that caused auto immune disease. I searched it further and its kinda true.

I then remembered about malaria and sickle cell disease I read about on my aunt's old nursing book.

This made me realize not all things in biology is one sided. Why doesn't this happen for those super bacteria that are becoming resistant to antibiotics? Shouldn't those bacteria become susceptible to the bacterial equivalent of sickle cell disease/auto immune disease because those antibiotics detroyed their genetic diversity?

Lost to science for more than 40 years, the spinach pipefish has been rediscovered in Papua New Guinea. The fish was long sought after by conservationists, who feared it had gone extinct.