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Does a Mayfly, which only lives a day, evolve fast than a human?

Does a Mayfly, which only lives a day, evolve fast than a human?


Does a Mayfly, which only lives a day, evolve fast than a human?

Posted: 18 Feb 2018 03:50 AM PST

This might be really stupid but to me it makes sense, kind of. Evolution is about survival of the fittest right, so the more generations you have the faster changes take place and the weak are weeded out.

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What is the reason for Ethiopia demographic boom in recent years?

Posted: 18 Feb 2018 02:48 AM PST

I was browsing Wikipedia and according to it, in 2006 it had population of 74 777 981. In 2017, it is supposed to be ~105 350 020.

What's the reason for that boom?

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How does a flu vaccine lessen symptoms when you catch a flu variant that isn’t one of the variants in that seasons vaccination?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 07:48 PM PST

How do earthquakes happen that are far from tectonic plates fault lines?

Posted: 18 Feb 2018 05:15 AM PST

Yesterday there was an earthquake in the UK. I live in Bristol and felt it. It was very small but it got me thinking...the earthquakes epicentre was apparently located in wales and some 7km underground (I think) but wales or the UK is not really close to a fault line so what may have caused this earthquake?

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How do astronomers know the "red shift" is coming from the Doppler effect and not from static stars producing light at a red wavelength?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 03:06 PM PST

Would scientists not need a benchmark to know what wavelength the star is emitting and then what it is received at? If so, how do they determine the emitted wavelength?

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Do NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen, reduce specific areas of inflammation or do they reduce inflammation overall?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 01:41 PM PST

Are there any successful attempts to create a substance that is made up entirely with antimatter particles?

Posted: 18 Feb 2018 02:07 AM PST

Do other moons in our solar system have a 'near side' and 'far side' relative to the body they orbit?

Posted: 18 Feb 2018 04:01 AM PST

Our moon has a far side never visible from earth (AKA the dark side), and the near side that's always visible. Do other moons in our solar system, or in the galaxy at large, display similar behavior?

I'm also pretty curious as to how or why our moon happens to orbit in that way, as another question.

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Why do some plants need full strong direct sunlight but others need partial shade and indirect sunlight? What is the physiological/chemical reason behind this?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 08:23 PM PST

[chemistry][nuclear physics] if the island of stability does exist, do we have any way of estimating what the behavior/properties of those elements will be like?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 12:31 PM PST

Would Koko, the sign-language speaking gorilla, have been able to translate what a different, non-signing gorilla was saying?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 08:20 AM PST

Most antibacterial sprays kill 99.9% of germs. What's the 0.1% of bacteria consist of?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 10:15 AM PST

When sound waves interfere in air, they create beat frequencies. Does this also happen when electromagnetic waves interfere in space?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 05:36 PM PST

When two electric waves heterodyne, they produce two products called sidebands (or heterodynes) equal to the sum and the difference of the original two frequencies.

Typically, this phenomenon takes place in a non-linear circuit element, such as a diode or a transistor.

Can this also happen if the waves are just moving through space, or maybe confined inside a resonant cavity or waveguide? Is it enough for the two waves to simply superimpose in space and interfere, to create the heterodynes? Or do they need to "multiply" somehow through a diode?

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Is it possible for an object to be travelling so fast it would bounce off the atmosphere?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 11:05 AM PST

Basically the title, but is there theoretically a speed/shape that if it were to collide with Earth's atmosphere at a certain angle it would bounce off the atmosphere like a rock skipping on water?

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Is Crystallized Bismuth the Only Instance of Naturally Occurring Right Angles?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 10:03 AM PST

Was watching a video about crystallizing bismuth and it occured to me that I can't think of any other place in nature where something forms right angles. Why does bismuth grow in right angles as opposed to more of a fractal shape and does this occur anywhere else in nature?

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How is the CMB used to calculate the Hubble constant?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 08:39 AM PST

How do we know what the internal structure of planets and moons is?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 04:39 PM PST

Would it be possible for a planet's day to be longer than its year?

Posted: 17 Feb 2018 07:27 AM PST

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