Hacker News with Generative AI: Evolutionary Biology

Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth (theguardian.com)
For scientists, our earliest ancestor wasn’t Adam or Eve but Luca. Luca didn’t look anything like us – it was a single-celled bacterium-like organism. A recent study by a team of scientists based in the UK has delivered rather shocking news about this illustrious forebear.
Science, Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics
13 points by n1b0m 74 days ago | 0 comments
World's oldest mammalian ancestor discovered in Mallorca (phys.org)
An international research team led by the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals (MUCBO | MBCN) have described a fossil animal that lived between 270 and 280 million years ago in present-day Mallorca.
Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology, Spain
9 points by pseudolus 107 days ago | 0 comments
Fruits (2020) (graphallthethings.com)
I got curious about the evolutionary history of the fruits we commonly eat.
Evolutionary Biology, Food Science, Data Visualization
147 points by yeknoda 159 days ago | 24 comments
Why do we have near-equal numbers of male, female babies, unlike other animals? (theconversation.com)
We know that boys and girls are produced in much the same frequency. But how – and why – is this 1:1 ratio achieved?
Biology, Sex Determination, Evolutionary Biology, Human Reproduction
6 points by olvy0 168 days ago | 5 comments
The Ultra-Selfish Gene (worksinprogress.co)
Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Selfishness
96 points by jml7c5 210 days ago | 20 comments
Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit the Self After All (sciencealert.com)
Self-Awareness, Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, Psychology
62 points by indigoabstract 259 days ago | 67 comments