Genetic Material Found on Meteorite: A meteorite in Australia has been found to contain component molecules of DNA. [Popsci]
Darwinmania!: Natural selection is what we normally think of as Darwin’s big idea. Yet he wasn’t the first to discover that, either. At least two others — a doctor called William Wells, and a writer called Patrick Matthew — discovered it years before Darwin did. Wells described it (admittedly briefly) in 1818, when Darwin was just 9; Matthew did so in 1831, the year that Darwin set off on board HMS Beagle for what became a five-year voyage around the world. [NYT]
Body-shapes are ‘down to limbless, headless fish-like creature’: Supermodels, rats and every other creature with a backbone owe their body shapes to a limbless, headless fish-like creature likened to an “animated anchovy fillet.” [Telegraph]
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