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Fewer car owners and more driverless vehicles in future, survey reveals https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/09/fewer-car-owners-more-driverless-vehicles-future-survey-reveals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

Extinction mugshots: 'See this? This is gone' View in LinkedIn

Paris mayor unveils plan ​to restrict traffic and pedestrianise city centre. Cities without cars. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/08/paris-mayor-anne-hidalgo-plan-restrict-traffic-pedestrianise-city-centre-france?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

TREE OF ONE PERCENT. "The phylogenetic relationships of eukaryotes have been analysed using both genome-scale data sets and smaller sets of genes...a recent analysis has shown that even these genealogy-defining genes undergo a constant rate of horizontal transfer, and the use of such a small collection of genes has been criticized for only being able to recover a “tree of one percent”." https://lnkd.in/dz-st9e View in LinkedIn

CHAIN OF EVENTS. "We suggest that major shifts in biological complexity – from lower level entities to the emergence of new, higher level entities – are associated with a physical transition (perhaps akin to a thermodynamic phase transition), and this physical transition is in turn associated with a fundamental change in causal structure." https://lnkd.in/dTS7dFy View in LinkedIn

LATE INNOVATION. "We address eukaryogenesis from four perspectives — molecular phylogenetics, palaeontology, bioenergetics, and modern cell biology and biochemistry — each of which has contributed important and surprisingly congruent insights relating to this argument. It is the consilience of these lines of evidence that leads us to conclude that eukaryotes are not a primary lineage of life; rather, they are a relatively late innovation." https://lnkd.in/dz-st9e View in LinkedIn

POWER OF REASON. "We argue that hypothesis testing and inductive reasoning are consilient with a symbiogenic hypothesis for the origin of the Eukaryota." https://lnkd.in/dz-st9e View in LinkedIn

WAS IT SINGULAR? "Scientific and popular rhetoric extolling this event as a singularity lacks rigorous evidential and statistical support. Here, we question several of the usual claims about the specialness of eukaryogenesis, focusing on both eukaryogenesis as a process and its outcome, the eukaryotic cell." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10278.full View in LinkedIn

HIT BY LIGHTNING. "Eukaryogenesis is widely viewed as an improbable evolutionary transition uniquely affecting the evolution of life on this planet." https://lnkd.in/d6GwkCt View in LinkedIn

EUKARYOTES EVOLUTION. "Most hypotheses have been inferred from studying the biology of modern organisms. Eukaryotes may have evolved from prokaryotes because: (1). Both use RNA and DNA are the genetic material; (2). Both use the same 20 amino acids; (3). Both have ribosomes and DNA and RNA; (4). Both have a lipid bilayer cell membrane; (5). Both use L amino acids and D sugars." https://lnkd.in/dCVM9yX View in LinkedIn