Spider webs seem remarkable because they involve externally visible behaviour. But is web-weaving really any more remarkable than the unseen weaving of cells in embryology? Web-weaving is Extended Phenotype embryology: just another amazing route by which DNA weaves phenotypes.
-
-
Näytä tämä ketjuKiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
-
-
-
I think the definition of news is that it has to be new. If spiders start hunting in packs on the savanna, that'd be headline news too.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
-
-
-
If babies were discovered going to offices and working an eight hour shift, it would be headline news. Yet Dolly Parton works 9-5, and we treat it as commonplace. What’s the difference?
-
Weirdly in the 80’s Sheena Easton’s baby took the morning train.. worked 9-5 and came home again Maybe that’s why Dolly never got the qudos she deserved for that.

Keskustelun loppu
Uusi keskustelu -
-
-
If Richard Dawkins were discovered to have a brain cavity full of albumen and egg yolk, it would be headline news. Yet eggs do it all the time, and we treat it as commonplace. What’s the difference?
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
-
-
-
You make the strangest observations at times. We treat the commonplace as commonplace because it's commonplace. If, on the other hand, a pack of spiders wrestled a buffalo to the ground you can bet that would be headline news as well, and the plot of several horror films.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
-
-
-
If cows were discovered 2000m underwater, using a modified, luminescent fin in order to lure prey, it would be headline news. Yet angler fish have been doing this for 100 million years, and we treat it as commonplace. What’s the difference?
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
-
-
-
If an otter walked 500 miles, it would be headline news. Yet the Proclaimers walk double that just to be the man who rolls a thousand miles to fall down at your door, and we treat it as commonplace. What's the difference?
-
The Otter felt no urge to write a song about its epic journey?
Keskustelun loppu
Uusi keskustelu -
-
-
Spiders have been doing it for ages and it *is* commonplace? I dunno man I'm not a professor
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
-
Lataaminen näyttää kestävän hetken.
Twitter saattaa olla ruuhkautunut tai ongelma on muuten hetkellinen. Yritä uudelleen tai käy Twitterin tilasivulla saadaksesi lisätietoja.