by BioEdge | Oct 27, 2014 | Site Content
Note to readers: Biological Expositions is a series of blog-posts each of which is equivalent in content to a book chapter. If a bio-bullet is likened to a starter, our routine blog-post could be seen as a light lunch and a Biological Exposition blog-post as a three...
by BioEdge | Sep 22, 2014 | Site Content
Black-and-white armbands remind bullies that small cats can scratch above their weight. No mammalian family more thoroughly exploits camouflage than the cats. Whether by stripes, rosettes, blotches, mottles, melanism, or plain countershading, cats are highly adept at...
by BioEdge | Jun 27, 2014 | Site Content
by BioEdge | Jun 18, 2014 | Site Content
Note to readers: Biological Expositions is a series of blog-posts each of which is equivalent in content to a book chapter. If bio-bullets are likened to a starter, blog-posts could be seen as a light lunch and Biological Expositions as a three course meal. We look...
by BioEdge | Jun 5, 2014 | Site Content
Butyric acid is an unlikely contender for a newly discovered vitamin in the human species. Yet that is what we contend – apparently for the first time – here at Exploring the Bio-edge. Here we have a substance that stinks of vomit, rotten milk, rancid butter, and...
by BioEdge | Mar 27, 2014 | Site Content
The Maasai of East Africa claim a staple[1] of bovine milk as their birthright. Such a diet in adulthood has no precedent among mammals. Furthermore, no physiological adaptation in the Maasai to such specialisation has been discovered. We investigated how humans might...
