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STUCK OR BETTER OFF? "Why have not prokaryotes evolved complex multicellularity?" https://lnkd.in/dNEtvR8 View in LinkedIn

TIME LAPSES of a growing snowflakes. "These are not computer simulations, but are real slivers of ice grown in the laboratory. I photograph the crystals as they grow, controlling their shapes by changing the temperature and humidity as they form. The final shape depends on the entire growth history." http://www.snowcrystals.com/videos/videos.html View in LinkedIn

NO SURVIVING INTERMEDIATES. "Regardless of how early eukaryotes escaped from their predicament, it is plain that the problems faced by a prokaryotic host cell with bacterial endosymbionts are serious, if not irreconcilable, and go a long way towards explaining why there are no surviving evolutionary intermediates between prokaryotes and eukaryotes." https://lnkd.in/dNEtvR8 View in LinkedIn

SNOWFLAKE IMAGES. "Don Komarechka has spent more than 2500 hours photographing snowflakes. Over the past five years, the 29-year-old Canadian has dedicated his winters to obsessively capturing their geometric peculiarities and tiny asymmetries—which means he has to get them before they melt." https://lnkd.in/du5tjyw View in LinkedIn

BOTHERSOME ISSUE. "If eukaryotes are so richly favoured, why did they only evolve once?" https://lnkd.in/dNEtvR8 View in LinkedIn

"SNOWFLAKES Hardcover (2008) by Kenneth Libbrecht (Author). A lovely guide. https://lnkd.in/ddmNJRy View in LinkedIn

GENOME RESTRUCTURING. "Restructuring involved the loss of dispensable or redundant genes and the massive translocation of genes from the ancestral organelles to the nucleus. Genomics and bioinformatic data suggest that the process of DNA transfer from organelles to the nucleus still continues, providing raw material for evolutionary tinkering in the nuclear genome." https://lnkd.in/d7Gtrg9 View in LinkedIn

SNOWFLAKES IN PHOTOGRAPHS. "For almost a century, W. A. Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. His painstakingly prepared images were remarkable revelations of nature's diversity in uniformity: no two snowflakes are exactly alike, but all are based on a common hexagon." https://lnkd.in/dCpMJMA View in LinkedIn

MODIFIED CLASSIFICATION. "One hundred twenty one forms of falling ice: the new snow classification system. Magono and Lee did not include at least one very common type as well as a few other interesting types. This major omission was snow-crystal aggregates, generally known as “snowflakes” by meteorologists." http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/one-hundred-twenty-one-forms-of-falling-ice-the-new-snow-classification-system View in LinkedIn

FIRST CLASSIFICATION. "In 1966, Japanese meteorologists Choji Magono and Chung Woo Lee established 80 unique classifications of ice crystals, including cups, needles, bullets and scrolls." https://lnkd.in/dg5wgRX View in LinkedIn