https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta

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Terra preta

type of manmade (anthropogenic) soil found in the Amazon Basin

https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/and-the-most-cited-ecology-papers-published-in-the-last-10-years-are/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12035798/

PubMed

Ultra-high vacuum and microorganisms - PubMed

Experimental study of the space environment effect on living organisms is one of the most important tasks of exobiology. However location of the living organisms under study outside space vehicles and sputniks is combined with technical difficulties. Therefore…

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-05-08/the-fusion-of-two-sisters-into-a-single-woman-suggests-that-human-identity-is-not-in-our-dna.html

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The fusion of two sisters into a single woman suggests that human identity is not in our DNA

The biologist Alfonso Martínez Arias defends that genes do not define the uniqueness of a person, citing the example of Karen Keegan, who has two genomes

Burns, K. C., Hutton, I., & Shepherd, L. (2021). Primitive eusociality in a land plant? Ecology, 102(9). doi:10.1002/ecy.3373

How viruses control microbial ecosystems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis

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Medea hypothesis

The Medea hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward for a hypothesis that contests the Gaian hypothesis and proposes that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, may be self-destructive or suicidal. The metaphor refers to the mythological…

literally the medea hypothesis

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-microbial-viruses-secret-drivers-climate.html

phys.org

Microbial viruses act as secret drivers of climate change, new study finds

In a new study, scientists have discovered that viruses that infect microbes contribute to climate change by playing a key role in cycling methane, a potent greenhouse gas, through the environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_terrestrial_stilling

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Global terrestrial stilling

Decrease in wind speed near Earth's surface

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.14283

besjournals

ontophylo: Reconstructing the evolutionary dynamics of phenomes using new ontology‐informed phylogenetic methods

Reconstructing ancestral states for discrete characters is essential for understanding trait evolution in organisms. However, most existing methods are limited to individual characters and often o...