Today this remarkable post by Google researchers is a sensation around, and for good reasons. It explains itself pretty well, but quickly speaking, here’s the…
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It’s the end of XIX century. A man, far away from home, looks in his microscope. He’s looking at a drop of salty water, taken…
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2 CommentsA few months ago I was asking myself: why, among all terrestrial Arthropoda, insects came out as the obvious exceptional winners? That is, why did…
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3 CommentsWhy did insects win? The question, to me, is not peregrine. Arthropoda include a lot of moderately to robustly successful terrestrial groups: Arachnida and the…
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