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What is a circadian clock?
Broadly speaking, the circadian clock is a cell and molecular feedback loop – inside the cell, a bunch of proteins that interact with genes and DNA, which in turn interact back with those original proteins. This cellular feedback loop controls those outward and apparent rhythms we are aware of, like jet lag and waking, as well…
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Why is Darwin more famous than Wallace? Cultural survival of the fittest
Why is Darwin is more famous than Wallace? BBC – Why does Charles Darwin eclipse Alfred Russel Wallace? Why Evolution is True – Why is Darwin more famous than Wallace? Essentially it was because of the impact of Origin of Species. With their joint paper, Darwin and Wallace can be thought of a co-proposers of…
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Lamarck and Buffon – evolutionary heroes in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris
I recently visited Paris and made a quick trip to the Jardin des Plantes, the site of the Natural History Museum of Paris. Immediately facing you as you enter the park is a statue of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Lamarck’s theories are now mostly abandoned, as Darwin and Wallace’s theory of Evolution by Natural Selection has become…
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Evolution: What did Darwin, Wallace and Lamarck contribute?
To start this blog off, a little bit of history. Do you know who Charles Darwin is? How about Alfred Wallace? Jean-Baptiste Lamarck? You’ve probably heard of the first guy. The second, maybe. The third? Perhaps if you’re interested in biology, or French science. All three men are important in the development of evolution by…
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