Beyond Darwin & Global Cooling
by Muhammad on April 8, 2008
in Uncategorized
Two interesting stories I’ve been reading lately.
World Meteorological Organisation’s Secretary General says that the Earth’s Temperature to cool down in 2008, Thanks to La Nina (Opposite of El Nino), proving that the Earth is more resilient than we thought at controlling it’s own temperature.
2) WIRED: Beyond Darwin – Way Beyond
Trying to explain why certain jumps in evolution and adaptation which seem to defy explanation through solely individual properties or genetic changes. Scientists are now applying the evolution theory to larger groups calling them super-organisms. Including the Social Context and it’s ability to affect the evolution of groups as a whole. They example they use is the honey bee colony, where the individual characteristcs of the bees themselves have no change whatsoever, however the cahracteristics of the colony itself changes.
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