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Biodiversity

2 articles

- Evolution
Biodiversity Alters Strategies of Bacterial Evolution
- By Jordana Cepelewicz
- January 13, 2020
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In the closing paragraph of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin urged readers to “contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting […]
- Environment
What’s Worse: Unwanted Mutations or Unwanted Humans?
- By Simone M. Scully
- July 1, 2014
Three of the rare Przewalski’s horses that now roam the area near the Chernobyl nuclear plant.Sergey Gaschak Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . After a fatal series of errors and malfunctions in the early morning of April 26, 1986, the core of the Chernobyl nuclear facility melted down and […]