A History Of Life

1. The forgotten ingredient
(Theory of evolution/Earth Science matters)

...rget to explain, however, or altogether do not mention, an ingredient without which there is no ‘origin of species by natural selection’. This factor in evolution was perceived (albeit not definitely:...

2. San Miniato and the history of Earth Science
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

... accounts of his tuscan collections in his Conchiologia fossile subapennina (1814) and aptly dedicates the species Conus mercati to his predecessor. One of the mentioned localities is near the Cappucc...

3. Back to the Basin
(Paleontological sites/Paleogene Europe)

...eing loosely to densely packed all over the volume of the rock. The high diversity (we talk of hundreds of species that can be recovered from one stratum) and the sandy matrix speak of a shoreface env...

4. Man's roots, man's routes
(Theory of evolution/Man\'s evolution)

...e world", an interactive map with migration routes and climatic events that shaped the history of our species. A nice tool in the hands of teachers or anyone involved in popularizing evolutionary...

5. Methane, flatulence, and the coevolution of bacteria
(Past ecosystems/Microbial communities)

... intestines of humans are loaded with bacteria. The colon in particular is estimated to have more than 100 species of bacteria, mostly Bacteroides and gram-positives. These fermentative bacteria are e...

6. From seagrass to mangrove, and back
(Past ecosystems/Mangrove forest)

...cent communities, as demonstrated by earlier studies on reef fishes (Mumby et al. 2004), and that tropical species are linked in complex ways. A special issue of the Bulletin of Marine ...

7. What's a mangrove?
(Past ecosystems/Mangrove forest)

...t actualistic approach applied to mangrove plants and animals should be considered trustworthy only at the species or genus level, what hinders the identification of older “mangrove” plants adapted to...

8. Sperm whales carcasses at the shelf break
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...e lipids at deeper settings, such as bivalves belonging to genus Adipicola. Adaptations of the two species Adipicola pacifica and Adipicola crypta are now illustrated from aquarium specimens, ...

9. New species of sea anemone at 3000 m
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

A new anemone species has been found on whale bones lying on a deep-water bottom, around 3000 m in the Monterey Canyon, Pacific Ocean. The name chosen by Meg Daly and Luciana Gusmao, the specialists

10. Whale-fall bivalves
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...graded to form sulfide, to the benefit of anaerobic sulphophilic bacteria.   What species are there? The main charcater at Orciano is a rather large lucinid bivalve (see above...

11. Whale-fall communities on the shelf
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...bly well-known, very little is published on whale-fall communities from shelfal depths. What shallow-water species would partecipate to such a banquet? Are there any shelfal specialists to whale-fall ...