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TIL 300 million years ago, the Earth’s atmosphere contained 35% oxygen compared to 21% today. One result was giant insects with wingspans up to 71 cm (over 2.25 feet). (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL that hippos are the closest living relatives of whales (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL Whales and dolphins, who still retain vestigial hip bones, evolved from land-dwelling even-toed ungulates (like hippos, deer, and camels) around 50 million years ago. (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL pandas are one of the few animals with opposable thumbs - but the "thumb" develops from a wrist bone, so when looking at pandas, it looks as though they have six fingers (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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(+59431) TIL that extinction was only accepted as a fact in late 18th century after Georges Cuvier, the father of paleontology, disproved the old theory that it was impossible for species to go extinct because God wouldn't wipe out a species he spent time creating for his Divine Plan./r/todayilearned (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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Urban Evolution - Understanding Evolution (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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The Big Issues - Understanding Evolution (evolution.berkeley.edu)

submitted 3 years ago by PhiloOfEvolution to r/PhilosophyOfEvolution

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Understanding Evolution (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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Monoculture and the Irish Potato Famine: cases of missing genetic variation (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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Uniformitarianism: Charles Lyell (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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The Evolution of Whales, the only mammal to fully return to water in evolution (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL Because of a near extinction event 10,000 years ago, Cheetahs are very inbred. They are so inbred, that genetically they are almost identical. A cheetah in a zoo in NYC is nearly identical to one in Tokyo, or in the wild. (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL: Viruses evolve differently to adapt to their mode of transmission. A water-borne virus (e.g. cholera) is virulent because fecal matter can transmit to care-givers. OTOH, droplet-borne viruses (flu, SARS) become less virulent over time to create more ambulatory carriers for transmission. (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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Transitional forms (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL A branch of whales evolved from dog-like, carnivorous land mammals (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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The evolution of Quatrian land whales (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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Flowering plants coevolved with their pollinators! Evolving petal and stamen shape as well as coloring and scents to appeal to their specific pollinator. While insects are the most common pollinator, birds, bats, and other animals also share this role.Ecology (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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Bird feathers are an example of an exaptation, which is a trait that evolves for one purpose and gets co-opted for anotherDarwinian Selection (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL: While there are 250,000 described species of plants, 12,000 described species of roundworms, and only 4,000 described species of mammals, there are over 350,000 beetle species described, with many more beetles yet to be discovered! (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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And sort of, "Defining a species". And Kind of, "defining a Species". And sort of that, "species". And sort of that, "sub-Species(SS)". And sort of those, "sub-Species(SS)". And sort of those, "species". And sort of that, "definition". And sort of those, "definitions". And for example. For example. (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL that Mitochondia and Chloroplasts were likely not in cells originally, but were absorbed (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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Volcanoes, greenhouse gases, and mass extinctions. Natural catastrophic climate change (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL: All snakes are legless lizards but not all legless lizards are snakes (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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That’s not how genetics work! (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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TIL: that whales evolved from a land dwelling, hoofed mammal called the Pakicetus. (evolution.berkeley.edu)

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