How Humans Changed Fruit Forever
Explore the truth about your favorite fruits! How human intervention has led to the unnatural evolution of fruits like bananas, making them sweeter and easier to eat.
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Essay (1881-08) “The Christian Religion,” “Is All of the Bible Inspired?” ch. 2, North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 297
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There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences. Collected in Allen Thorndike Rice (ed.), The Christian Religion, ch. 1 (1882). See Longfellow (1857).
Natural selection is not a designer.
It's a filter with memory -
not a mind that plans, but a past that refuses to disappear,
stacking constraints until form looks intentional.
No architect-
just enough pressure, long enough,
and structure starts to resemble purpose.
#PSA: this is your periodic reminder that “survival of the fittest” is NOT about physical fitness* – it means “the best fit for the local environment, which allows an organism to survive, reproduce, and pass on its traits to its offspring”
e.g. people who have the genetically inherited disease sickle cell anaemia are generally “less fit” (in a physical fitness / life expectancy sense) than those who don’t have it, but in areas where malaria is endemic, having sickle cell anaemia provides a degree of immunity from the worst symptoms of malaria^ – so people with sickle cell anaemia are “the best fit” (or “the fittest”) for the local environment compared to those who don’t have it 💁♀️
#SurvivalOfTheFittest
#NaturalSelection
#biology101
^ this is simplified, for more nuance (esp. heterozygosity vs. homozygosity) start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease?wprov=sfti1#Malaria
15-Apr-2026
Massive #ancientDNA study reveals #naturalSelection has accelerated in recent human evolution
Hundreds of genes selected in West Eurasia since farming began, many linked to health
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123959
#science #genome #humans #humanEvolution
Applying new analytic methods to nearly 16,000 ancient genomes reveals natural selection has acted on hundreds, not dozens, of genes in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. More than half of the genes have known links to disease risk and other traits today, although it’s not yet clear what made each gene advantageous in prehistoric contexts. The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history.
Of course, you need to be sensible when you're first starting out. Don't mess with #dangerous things. You don't start repairing hydraulic systems or mains-voltage gear or machines that can take your arm off if you sneeze wrong.
Start with simple stuff, and basic safety precautions.
You can try #electrical stuff, as long as you unplug it and short any big capacitors (large cylindrical things) it has, in case they don't have a bleed resistor on them.
Even better is to start with something that plugs in with an external low-voltage plugpack - it's much harder to kill yourself with a tower fan that runs from 24 VDC than one that runs directly off the mains.
Maybe do a brief web search on the device if you're not sure about it, just to see if there are warnings about working on it.
Surprising (in some sense) things to avoid working on:
Microwave oven. This is the object in your house that is trying hardest to kill you. High frequency, high-voltage AC will kill you dead if you get it across your body.
Old-fashioned CRT (TV/monitor) tubes. Very high voltages, and frequently hold a charge for a long time.
Gas-powered equipment. You can't "unplug" them, and there's always a chance there's enough gas hidden in the carburetor or the removed spark plug wire bumps into the plug that it could puff to life if you turn the crankshaft. One revolution is enough to maim or kill you.
Have fun!
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#danger #DangerWillRobinson #DIY #fixit #DarwinAward #NaturalSelection
A sweeping new review of five decades of scientific literature finds robust evidence that natural selection operates simultaneously across multiple levels of life, from genes to groups to entire communities, and not just on individual organisms.
#evolution #naturalselection #biodiversity
A sweeping new review of five decades of scientific literature finds robust evidence that natural selection operates simultaneously across multiple levels of life, from genes to groups to entire communities, and not just on individual organisms.
The #Naturalselection is what I would wish everyone who watched #snowboarding at the #olympics should get to see instead - great riding in superb terrain.
Now live from Revelstoke, BC: https://www.youtube.com/live/fOx1qMS3I-g?si=xklOlrTxaMARWzW_
My review of two books about the evolution of maladaptation and human imperfection is now out as Early Alert in the journal Evolution @sse_evolution
Enjoy!
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpag033/8503492
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