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  1. Linkkisi ei tunnu toimivan. Ajattelin itsekkin tehdä tästä avauksen, mutta aika ei nyt riitä. Tässä pari linkkiä:

    http://www.nature.com/news/picking-an-ancient-brain-1.11559

    http://phys.org/news/2012-10-complex-brains-evolved-earlier-previously.html
  2. Onko kivaa olla tollo?
  3. Olinpas ajattelematon...
  4. "Jonkin verran on kehittynyt kannibaalikasveja, mutta ei tietääkseni yhtään yhteyttävää eläintä."

    Tieto on tosiaan kasvava luonnonvara, kuten itse sanoit.

    "Solar-powered sea slug harnesses stolen plant genes

    It's the ultimate form of solar power: eat a plant, become photosynthetic. Now researchers have found how one animal does just that.

    Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous leaf-shaped body, that lives along the Atlantic seaboard of the US. What sets it apart from most other sea slugs is its ability to run on solar power.

    Mary Rumpho of the University of Maine, is an expert on E. chlorotica and has now discovered how the sea slug gets this ability: it photosynthesises with genes "stolen" from the algae it eats."

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16124-solarpowered-sea-slug-harnesses-stolen-plant-genes.html

    Ja uudempi tapaus tältä kesältä.

    "Photosynthesis-like process found in insects

    Aphids may have a rudimentary sunlight-harvesting system.

    The biology of aphids is bizarre: they can be born pregnant and males sometimes lack mouths, causing them to die not long after mating. In an addition to their list of anomalies, work published this week indicates that they may also capture sunlight and use the energy for metabolic purposes.

    Aphids are unique among insects in their ability to synthesize pigments called carotenoids. Many creatures rely on these pigments for a variety of functions, such as maintaining a healthy immune system and making certain vitamins, but all other animals must obtain them through their diet. Entomologist Alain Robichon at the Sophia Agrobiotech Institute in Sophia Antipolis, France, and his colleagues suggest that, in aphids, these pigments can absorb energy from the Sun and transfer it to the cellular machinery involved in energy production1."

    http://www.nature.com/news/photosynthesis-like-process-found-in-insects-1.11214