Astronomy. National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - Mathematical Biologist Pushes Frontiers of Knowledge - US National Science Foundation (NSF) DiscoveryMathematical Biologist Pushes Frontiers of Knowledge Corporations, international organizations and other institutions rely on this curiosity-driven researcher to answer societal questions June 21, 2013 In 1995, mathematical biologist Joel E.
The Red Queen was right: Life must continually evolve to avoid extinction. The death of individual species shouldn’t be the only concern for biologists worried about animal groups, such as frogs or the “big cats,” going extinct.
A University of California, Berkeley, study has found that a lack of new, emerging species also contributes to extinction. As the Red Queen told Alice, “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” Similarly, animals and plants must continually adapt and evolve just to avoid going extinct. (Illustration by Sir John Tenniel from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass,” 1871) “Virtually no biologist thinks about the failure to originate as being a major factor in the long term causes of extinction,” said Charles Marshall, director of the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology and professor of integrative biology, and co-author of the report.
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