biologists

Phil Skell, a retired biologist, says he has asked many biologists the following question: Would you have done the work any differently if you believed Darwin's theory was wrong? and the response was unanimously "In my work it would have made no difference, but I am certain it would for...

I recently saw a special about Australia on PBS. The topic was poisonous lifeforms on that continent. What I don't get is they would profile say a snake that is 50 times more toxic ( venom wise ) then a cobra. Then they show a monitor lizard eating the snake, hitting it against a rock first to...

When I worked in a print room, and had to shuffle paper quickly, I learned to make my hands sweat at will, as I hate people who lick their fingers to achieve this. (Why sweating is less unpleasant to me, I don't know.) My question is, is this an unusual ability? Can anyone do this? As I'd...

This interesting Phil Skell person that I've been chatting with makes this claim: and Is he correct? :confused: ~~ Paul

I remember reading and being exposed to ??Film maybe? About spontainious gender reassignment in frogs and fish due to environmental pressures ( overcrowding, ect.), or even flooding the environment with certain chemicals/hormone precursers/hormones. Anyone here fimiliar whith that?

Hey all. I had some fun playing with these two taxonomy sites and finding homo sapiens. But it created a lot of questions. Hopefully one of you fine folks can help me out with this one: When does a sub-phylum become a new order? Or when does a sub-kingdom become a new phylum? Refer to the...