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nature

• Natures Barbell Strategy
  microNov 4, 2024newsletterecologyevolutionnature

  Evolution has generated two opposed modes for organisms to find fitness: r-selection is about speed: rapid reproduction, fast growth, many offspring K-selection is about carrying capacity: slow development, robust fit…

• Physics
  microApr 18, 2024physicsnaturescience

  Kármán vortex streets in nature.

• Evolution Has No Goal
  postsFeb 27, 2024evolutionknowledgeepistemologybiology

  There’s a common misconception that evolution is "seeking" fitness — that there’s some inherent motivation in the process pushing toward a particular objective. But evolution is an undirected process of mutation, test…

• Pohja Korvemaa Nature Reserve
  microFeb 19, 2024naturegeographyestonia

  Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve , Estonia..

• Ecology
  microApr 7, 2019ecologynature

  Scanning the world’s tallest tree in three dimensions.

• A Vast Wilderness
  postsJan 27, 2019booksAlaskaJohn McPheenature

  I picked up John McPhee’s Coming Into the Country this week. You could think of it like a biography of Alaska: the region pre- and post-statehood, its people, the wilderness, wildlife, and its vastness. Woven througho…