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MENDEL'S TEXT. "Experiments in plant hybridization (1865). Gregor Mendel. Read at the February 8th, and March 8th, 1865, meetings of the Brünn Natural History Society. "This experiment was practically confined to a small plant group, and is now, after eight years’ pursuit, concluded in all essentials." https://lnkd.in/dJChHYG View in LinkedIn

MENDEL'S EARLY EXPERIMENT. "This experiment was designed to support or to illustrate Lamarck's views concerning the influence of environment upon plants. He found that the plants' respective offspring retained the essential traits of the parents, and therefore were not influenced by the environment. This simple test gave birth to the idea of heredity." https://lnkd.in/dfsvaCA View in LinkedIn

MENDEL'S ABUNDANT CURIOSITY. "On one of his frequent walks around the monastery, he found an atypical variety of an ornamental plant. He took it and planted it next to the typical variety. He grew their progeny side by side to see if there would be any approximation of the traits passed on to the next generation." https://lnkd.in/dfsvaCA View in LinkedIn

THE CLOISTERED LIFE. "As a child, Mendel attended a school in which natural sciences were emphasized and the students learned importance of beekeeping and how to grow fruit. Indeed, Mendel would be interested in beekeeping well into adulthood and completed a series of experiments at his monastery later in life." https://lnkd.in/dZZbX5P View in LinkedIn

R&D ON MENDEL'S GENES. "The discipline of classical genetics is founded on the hereditary behavior of the seven genes studied by Gregor Mendel. The advent of molecular techniques has unveiled much about the identity of these genes." https://lnkd.in/d42Fwde View in LinkedIn

MENDEL THE NATURALIST. "During his childhood he worked as a gardener, and as a young man attended the Olmutz Philosophical Institute. In 1843 he entered an Augustinian monastery in Brunn, Czechoslovakia. Soon afterward, his natural interest in science and specifically hereditary science led him to start experiments with the pea plant. Mendel's attraction for scientific research was based on his love of nature in general. He was not only interested in plants, but also in meteorology and theories of evolution." https://lnkd.in/dfsvaCA View in LinkedIn

ANT WARS. "An entire colony enslaved by an alien species to care for their young. Slave rebellions quelled by mind manipulation. It sounds like science fiction, right? But it really happens!" https://lnkd.in/dabtbmb View in LinkedIn

"PARASITISM is currently considered to be one of the most powerful forces driving evolution. Traditionally, parasites are viruses, prokaryotes, or eukaryotes that exploit other such organisms. Recently, however, ultraselfish genetic elements (sex-ratio-distorting cytoplasmatic genes, meiotic drivers, etc., have also been considered to “parasitize” individual genes or complete genomes. At the other end of the range of biological entities, “social parasites” parasitize complete societies." Another huge leap in scale like multicellularity. https://lnkd.in/dkcthxh View in LinkedIn

ANTS AS A SUPERORGANISM (VIDEO), cheating, brood raiding, ant wars and peace treaties. Brilliant photography. Lack of reproduction contributes to the development of a non-centralized superorganism. And trillions of ants in super-colonies extending all over the world. Well worth watching. https://lnkd.in/dPF8b3T View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE contemplates the tiny mighty ant for one weekend. These are one of nature’s greatest success stories, in no small part by organizing as super-organisms whose sheer drive and energy punch much higher than their weight. Ant communities takes the massive evolutionary leap of multicellularity to a new level of complexity: not just a division of labor among complex cells, but a division of labor and effective multicellularity among organisms that are themselves complex multicellular creatures. View in LinkedIn