linkedin post 2019-01-06 06:25:34

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TINKERING FOR A BILLION YEARS. "Many of the regulatory genes in butterflies, giraffes and squid, for example, are similar, having been inherited from their last common ancestor, the protostome–deuterostome ancestor, which lived at least half a billion years ago. Thus the striking changes in body plans have been accompanied by relatively modest tinkering with the machinery of early development of that long-extinct precursor." https://lnkd.in/dx4KvtT View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-01-07 16:29:40

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DIGITAL BEDROOM. "The digitalization of childhood can be interpreted as a response to a pre-existing need for new technologies of interaction. The digital bedroom emerged as the outcome of the growing tendency to relocate children’s activities from the outdoor to the indoor." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-01-05 07:54:00

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POST CAMBRIAN TOOLKIT. "The stability of animal body plans and the underlying GRNs after the Cambrian period have resulted in many of these cis-regulatory elements being maintained ever since as sequences that evolve very slowly and in parallel in different animal groups." (GRNs = gene regulatory networks). https://lnkd.in/dTKCkih View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-01-07 16:25:58

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OPEN INNOVATION. "A key factor that enables us as human beings to solve complex problems and achieve a level of dominance over a wide variety of environments from the desert to the arctic to the deep ocean is not simply our individual big brains, but our capacities for extreme sociality, to cooperate and learn from one another, and our ability to build on previous knowledge and to accumulate culture." https://lnkd.in/gMtMDwD View in LinkedIn
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