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- Dictionaryspecies/ˈspiːʃɪz/
noun
- 1. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, e.g. Homo sapiens.
- 2. a kind or sort: "a species of invective at once tough and suave"
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1 day ago · The possibility of linking humans with earlier apes by descent became clear only after 1859 with the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, in which he argued for the idea of the evolution of new species from earlier ones.
2 days ago · Australopithecus, (genus Australopithecus ), group of extinct primates closely related to, if not actually ancestors of, modern human beings and known from a series of fossils found at numerous sites in eastern, north-central, and southern Africa.
5 days ago · All known extant (surviving) organisms are based on the same biochemical processes: genetic information encoded as nucleic acid ( DNA, or RNA for many viruses), transcribed into RNA, then translated into proteins (that is, polymers of amino acids) by highly conserved ribosomes.
3 days ago · Early modern human (EMH), or anatomically modern human (AMH), are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens (the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans, from extinct archaic human species.
1 day ago · Sometimes, minor errors in the building generated a more efficient automaton, which then became the dominant species. Quite different scenarios and routes have been followed and tested in the laboratory to explain the origin of life. There are two schools of thought in proposing the prebiotic supply of organics.
5 days ago · Extinction, in biology, is the dying out or extermination of a species. It occurs when species are diminished because of environmental forces (natural or human-made) or because of evolutionary changes in their members. Learn more about mass extinctions and modern extinctions.
3 days ago · Mar Biol 169, 157 (2022). Credit pictures: Aki Masunaga and Alfonso Ferrandez-Roldán. Logically speaking, you would think that animals who appeared to be the same—even if they were found in ...
