A famous early example of natural selection in action was actually discovered right here in Providence by a Brown professor, Hermon Carey Bumpus. Passing by the Atheneum (just a few blocks from here on Benefit Street) after a severe blizzard in January 1898, Professor Bumpus found a flock of English house sparrows that had been knocked down by the storm. A typical scientist, he picked them all up and took them back to his lab, where some revived and some didn’t. When he measured them he discovered that the living were morphologically different from the dead. That was a case of natural selection acting in a single night!
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Landscapes: Volume One on Vimeo - 0 views
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My last blog was a lot about beauty. This, I think, is another example of how we can use technology to better record it. The guy puts his camera on a track and takes a bunch of pictures and he put them all together in After Effects
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My old roommate Google Buzzed this web page. I thought our class might like this because it necessitates a lot of browsing. :)
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Another tool!
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Elegance. Simplicity. Intelligence.
Johanna Schmitt: 'Natural Selection in an Age of Global Change' | Today at Brown - 0 views
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Some of those experiments have already produced results — such as the rapid, pervasive, and dangerous evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
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And a Gallup poll on Darwin’s birthday this February showed that only 39 percent of the American public overall “believes” in the theory of evolution.
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I've always wondered if Natural Selection is different for humans in a day and age where debilitating physical characteristics don't always prevent humans from reproducing. I found this article and highlighted some interesting points.
Google Image Search Implements CC License Filtering - Creative Commons - 1 views
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How handy!
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