Biology. 3 notes.

Some weird, wonderful, and depressing facts.

We have long been told by physics that we are nothing but a collection of atoms. Perhaps the most memorable line that comes to mind is physicist Brian Greene saying that we are nothing but a collection of particles dancing to the quantum mechanical tunes—or something to that effect.It’s a depressing account of the…

I didn’t know that hybridization in plants and animals can lead to sterility in many cases. Well-known examples include the mule (a cross between a horse and a donkey) and ligers (a lion-tiger hybrid). But sometimes these chance encounters can lead to remarkable evolutionary innovations like potatoes. Apparently, on a…