The spider giant viper uses its unique lure to trick birds into coming closer.
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book of genes of the dead
Richard Dawkins (Yale University Press (USA, on sale); Apollo (UK, October 17))
The late, great evolutionary biologist William Hamilton apparently corresponded on second-hand postcards, writing over the original script in different colored ink, sometimes at right angles. in The Book of Genes of the Dead: Darwin’s Dreamshis colleague Richard Dawkins describes it as a kind of palimpsest, “a manuscript in which later writing is superimposed on earlier (erased) writing.” According to him, this…
(Tag translation) Genetics
