This article and its related investigation are a testament to the speed evolutionary trait modification can take place when the stakes are high.
These changes have been taking shape in as little over a dozen generations!
Moscow's Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a Mastery of the SubwaySelf-perception is key! Wow... and you see this all throughout human interaction! You can only be as good as you see yourself to be!
If you have low self-esteem, or you feel lacking in some respects, whether or not you can actually do something because irrelevant, you started yourself out with a handicap.
You have to SEE yourself as such! If you can't, if you don't want to see yourself that way or if you don't believe in yourself: You won't!
I would publicly confess, I've tried to teach that to a couple of people I've known... But, I guess it can be very hard sometimes.... Living is such a fun challenge.
He hints at spontaneous self-organization as an underlying force (although I prefer salient feature) of nature, at all scales. To me: that force, or salient feature that can be evidenced in the laws we have devised to describe nature is actually a more appropriate definition of Life. I think I've written about that before, but the examples in this video are a very good example of the motivation behind these ideas. He doesn't present this spontaneous organization in more abnormal time scales o sizes, but it is there.
Agruparé aquí un grupo de ideas que tengo sobre los olores:
Supongo que cuando se ve de esa manera, queda obvia la utilidad evolutiva de la habilidad y porqué en tantas especies se ha desarrollado tanto o más que el oído o la vista. De igual modo confío en que seguiremos descubriendo más datos sorprendentes sobre el olfato, y tendremos perfumes y artefactos para: subir / bajar el metabolismo, atraer / repudiar personas, detectar / tratar enfermedades, controlar el sistema inmunológico, guiar el desarrollo infantil, controlar el estrés y la producción hormonal, ah, y claro, sabremos más sobre nuestras mascotas. :D
... "Hurst's research focused on short sequences of DNA where such a second code exists and acts as a 'splice enhancer'. After DNA is copied into a molecule of RNA, these enhancers tell a human cell how to snip out unneeded sections and splice together the remainder, so it can be used as the template for protein production." ... "In the lab, it is possible to eliminate the need for splicing. So a DNA sequence could have its splicing function removed from it completely, and researchers could introduce genetic changes to produce a faster or stronger protein. Biotechnology researchers could perhaps use this technique to create more efficient enzymes." ... (link)
... "to create more efficient enzymes" ... Los otros días Laura me dijo que quería ser endocrinóloga, y los dos quedamos en que iba a ser una carrera con muchas inovaciones en los próximos años. ;)