evolutionary biology

noun

1. the branches of biology that deal with the processes of change in populations of organisms, especially taxonomy, paleontology, ethology, population genetics, and ecology.

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"This insane, absolutely spectacular feature flips the long-standing assumption in evolutionary biology that teeth are strictly oral structures," said Karly Cohen, a UW postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Labs.

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Of Yemeni and Syrian heritage, Al-Shamahi grew up in Birmingham, England; earned degrees in evolutionary biology and taxonomy and biodiversity from Imperial College London and was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2015.

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“We started just kind of playing around with what social and cultural processes haven’t been talked about,” eventually focusing on religion, politics and war because of their persistent yet underexamined impacts on evolutionary biology, particularly in cities, where cultural values and built environments are densely concentrated.

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From here on out, it’s quite possible that parents who don’t want their kids learning about those topics could say: “Sorry, they can’t participate in this lesson on the Civil War because our religious beliefs tell us that the South should have won. They can’t learn this lesson about evolutionary biology because we think Darwin was the devil and evolution is false.”

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How long will it be until a major university bans the teaching of evolutionary biology, acting in the same spirit as German universities under Hitler, which proscribed “Jewish physics”?

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