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The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds: Implications for Drug Design

A 2026 study in Nature Structural Biology reveals that proteins can achieve the same functional fold through multiple entirely different amino acid sequences. U…

#biology #proteins #drug-discovery #ai

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Are Viruses Alive? The Biology Question That Won't Stay Settled

When SARS-CoV-2 shut down the global economy, billions of people became familiar with the concept of a virus without anyone quite answering the basic question:…

#virology #biology #classification #evolution

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The Octopus Problem: What a Distributed Brain Tells Us About Intelligence

Octopus vulgaris has roughly 500 million neurons — comparable to a dog. Two-thirds of those neurons are not in the brain. They're distributed throughout eight a…

#octopus #neuroscience #intelligence #evolution

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Your Brain's Threat Rehearsal: The Evolutionary Explanation

Suppose dreams are not random stories at all. Suppose they are training exercises. That's the core of **Threat Simulation Theory**, most closely associated w…

#evolution #threat-simulation #nightmares #survival

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"Natural Selection Is Not 'Survival of the Fittest' — Here's What It Actually Is"

# Natural Selection Is Not 'Survival of the Fittest' — Here's What It Actually Is Herbert Spencer coined "survival of the fittest" in 1864, after reading D…

#evolution #natural-selection #fitness #reproduction

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"Mendel, Mutations, and the Modern Synthesis: How Genetics Completed Darwin"

# Mendel, Mendel, Mutations, and the Modern Synthesis: How Genetics Completed Darwin Gregor Mendel ran pea plant experiments for 7 years (1856–1863) and pu…

#evolution #genetics #mendel #mutation

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"How New Species Form: The Mechanics of Speciation"

# How New Species Form: The Mechanics of Speciation "Species" sounds like it should have a clean definition. It doesn't. The most commonly used definition…

#evolution #speciation #reproductive-isolation #allopatric

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"Evolution We Can Actually Watch in Real Time"

# Evolution We Can Actually Watch in Real Time One of the persistent public misunderstandings about evolution is that it's too slow to observe. The London…

#evolution #antibiotic-resistance #observable-evolution #experimental-evolution

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"Common Misconceptions About Evolution (And Where They Come From)"

# Common Misconceptions About Evolution (And Where They Come From) Evolution is one of the best-supported theories in science, with evidence across genetic…

#evolution #misconceptions #science-communication #natural-selection

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"What Evolution Doesn't (Yet) Fully Explain"

# What Evolution Doesn't (Yet) Fully Explain The strength of evolutionary theory is not that it explains everything about the history of life. It's that wh…

#evolution #evo-devo #epigenetics #open-questions

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