Intelligences, Cultures IV: Bonobos & Chimpanzees / Inteligencias, Culturas IV: Bonobos y Chimpancés
Chimpanzee (left panel) and Bonobo (right panel) / Chimpancé (izquierda) y Bonobo (derecha). As expected, the most complex cultural...
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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jijorquera
Jul 12, 20226 min read
Intelligences and Cultures (III): Macaques and Benjamin Franklin / Macacos y Benjamín Franklin
Intelligences and cultures (III) Macaca fuscata The first case of cultural transmission—the ability to pass knowledge on from one...
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jijorquera
Jul 5, 202213 min read
Intelligences and Cultures / Inteligencias y culturas
Charles Darwin My object in this chapter is solely to show that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in...
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jijorquera
Jul 1, 20227 min read
Primates (II) and Machiavelli / Primates (II) y Maquiavelo
Niccolo Machiavelli and a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) / Niccolo Machiavelli y un chimpancé (Pan troglodytes) In most primate species,...
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jijorquera
Jun 28, 20227 min read
Primates
The field of evolutionary cognition requires us to consider every species in full. Whether we are studying hand anatomy, trunk...
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jijorquera
Jun 26, 202211 min read
Big Life (III): Dinosaurs & the Meteorite / Gran vida (III): Dinosaurios y meteorito
Diplodocus Dinosaurs proliferated during the Triassic Period, 252 to 201 million years ago (mya), and they were also present during the...
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jijorquera
Jun 23, 20225 min read
The Big Life (II): The Great Permian Dying / La gran vida (II): La gran mortandad del Pérmico
Pangea The Carboniferous Period was followed by the Permian Period. At the end of the Permian, about 252 million years ago, just before...
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jijorquera
Jun 21, 20228 min read
The Big Life colonizes the land / La gran vida coloniza la superficie terrestre
The Cambrian explosion of life-forms led to the colonization of the land’s surface approximately 475 to 400 million years ago (1,2). The...
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jijorquera
Jun 14, 20226 min read
“Macrobes” (II): Beginning of the Phanerozoic / “Macrobios” (II): Inicio del Fanerozoico
In the previous post, “Macrobes”, we talked about how life had evolved until the Ediacaran, the last geological Period of the Precambrian...
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jijorquera
Jun 9, 20227 min read
“Macrobes”: Ediacaran Period fossils / “Macrobios”: Fósiles del periodo Ediacárico
Previously we have dealt on how alien life could be. In this post we come back to the evolution of life on Earth. In the...
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jijorquera
Jun 3, 20229 min read
Alien Life (III): Tardigrades / Vida en otros mundos (III): Tardígrados
In previous posts on how extraterrestrial life could be, we talked about many extreme environments where living...
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jijorquera
May 31, 20227 min read
Alien Life (II): Resurrection plant / Vida en otros mundos (II): La planta que resucita
In the previous post on Alien Life we talked about the Pozas Azules ponds in México, with chemical compositions resembling the oceans of...
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jijorquera
May 29, 20227 min read
Alien Life / Vida en otros mundos
Beyond the solar system there is life of some kind. It exists, experts agree, on at least a small minority of Earthlike planets that...
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jijorquera
May 24, 20223 min read
Multicellularity / Multicelularidad
Grypania spiralis Multicellular organisms appeared possibly 2.2 billion years ago (1-5). At first, they were little more than colonies of...
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jijorquera
May 21, 20227 min read
Microbes / Microbios
Snowball Earth, Lynn Margulis and Endosymbiosis / Tierra en bola de nieve, Lynn Margulis y Endosimbiosis. Fictional Snowball Earth /...
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jijorquera
May 12, 20222 min read
How life could have arisen on an ‘RNA world’? / ¿Cómo pudo aparecer la vida en un "mundo ARN"?
(Traducción en español más abajo) See: https://www.science.org/content/article/how-life-could-have-arisen-rna-world and: A prebiotically...
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jijorquera
May 11, 20226 min read
Biosphere / Biosfera
(Versión en español más abajo). Earth’s biosphere, the part of our planet where life is present, extends from the atmosphere’s higher...
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jijorquera
Apr 29, 20225 min read
Microbes: The Invisible Life / Microbios: La vida invisible
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot. (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word; Caballeros, los...
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jijorquera
Apr 22, 20227 min read
Life (VI): Unity of Life / Vida (VI): Unidad de la vida
(Versión en español más abajo) Francis Crick and James Watson, as theoreticians and model builders, with the little-known and even less...
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jijorquera
Apr 14, 20228 min read
Life (V) More on the origin of life on Earth / Vida (V) Más sobre el origen de la vida en la Tierra
(Spanish version below) Paleontologist Peter Ward and geophysicist Joseph Kirschvink have suggested that the epoch of greatest species...
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