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This complicates management of this species, as the same person who recognizes the commercial and ecological importance of sima may view the pestrushka as a common species that can be exploited.

THE QUEST TO SNARE—AND SAVE—THE WORLD’S LARGEST OWLJONATHAN SLAGHTAUGUST 28, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE

They came up with a measure for hurricane activity experienced by each species based on how many times it was hit by these severe storms.

ANALYZE THIS: HURRICANES MAY HELP LIZARDS EVOLVE BETTER GRIPSCAROLYN WILKEAUGUST 26, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS

For a species that went extinct, you’d expect a sort of decline at some point, and we don’t see that.

CLIMATE CHANGE PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE WOOLLY RHINO’S RAPID DEMISESARA KILEY WATSONAUGUST 25, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE

It is an unparalleled way for a species to enhance their evolutionary experimentation—their search engine—by using functional gene variants, just re-mixed into different genomes.

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Further, changing the genetic makeup of a species also has ethical consequences that would need to be weighed by those who might be affected, from farmers to conservationists.

A SINGLE MOLECULE MAY ENTICE NORMALLY SOLITARY LOCUSTS TO FORM MASSIVE SWARMSJONATHAN LAMBERTAUGUST 12, 2020SCIENCE NEWS

The usual answer is that, by reshuffling genes with every generation, sex creates new genetic combinations, detaches beneficial mutations from harmful ones and gives a species a degree of evolutionary flexibility.

SEX IS DRIVEN BY THE IMPETUS TO CHANGE - ISSUE 88: LOVE & SEXJILL NEIMARKAUGUST 12, 2020NAUTILUS

In fact, it seems we as a species are trapped by a global work crisis, which condemns people to cast away their time just to get by in their day-to-day lives.

THE GLOBAL WORK CRISIS: AUTOMATION, THE CASE AGAINST JOBS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT ITPETER XINGAUGUST 6, 2020SINGULARITY HUB

In this issue, freelance writer Stephen Ornes takes us to Appalachia, where he chronicles scientists’ dogged work to restore an endangered species of mussel, the golden riffleshell.

WHAT IT TAKES TO SAVE SPECIES, LOCALLY AND GLOBALLYNANCY SHUTEJULY 26, 2020SCIENCE NEWS

If more species originate than go extinct, then species richness increases.

EVOLUTION: WHY IT SEEMS TO HAVE A DIRECTION AND WHAT TO EXPECT NEXTMATTHEW WILLSJUNE 10, 2020SINGULARITY HUB

Kristen Dahl, a marine ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, says she’s surprised even more fish didn’t turn up as starfish predators, given the breadth of species Kroon’s team sampled.

FISH POOP EXPOSES WHAT EATS THE DESTRUCTIVE CROWN-OF-THORNS STARFISHJAKE BUEHLERJUNE 8, 2020SCIENCE NEWS

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