Athol McLachlan's Blog
Thursday, 12 August 2021
DARWIN'S WARM LITTLE POND. A candidate place for the origin of life on earth*.
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The warm little ponds I consider here are rain pools of a particular type - that is those on rock surfaces as apposed to those on soft subst...
Friday, 11 June 2021
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SUNLIGHT Exposure to sunlight appears to be an underappreciated aspect of habitat. Among non-living features of habitat, it is water an...
Saturday, 19 December 2020
Alternative Phenotypes
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Monday, 26 October 2020
The Evolution of Migration Routes in Birds and Insects
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Consider an archipelago. Island inhabitants within an archipelago gain in fitness by moving between islands or between islands and mainl...
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Some Influential Colleagues and Ideas
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Influential colleagues and Ideas Some Influential Colleagues In September 1970 my wife Sandra and I immigrated to the UK from ...
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Winter Gnats
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Winter Gnats Fig 1 with the help of Andrew Mortley These flies ( Trichocera ), look rather like chironomid midges ( F ig. 1), an...
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Adaptation to habitat unpredictability and some consequences
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The subject of this essay is rain pools – specifically those on rock surfaces in tropical Africa . Rain pools are at the extreme of short ...
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