Are Humans the most Advanced Species? It should be obvious to anyone by now that there is something special about the human species. We are the most dominant species the planet has ever seen. How did this happen? Does intelligence always lead to dominance once it passes a threshold? Are we the most highly evolved or most advanced species? Does it even make sense to say that some species are more advanced than others? Such as the various hunting techniques that orcas use.

Sunday, March 18, 2018. Guest post by Agneta Szabo, MEnvSci Candidate in. The Professional Masters of Environmental Science program at the University of Toronto-Scarborough. Dodder vine attaching to a Tomato plant.

8230;under the Samaan tree. The Curtisses of Big Rapids. Ecologist, botanist, Wikipedian. I am an ecologist interested in the processes that shape community composition. One of the most disturbed, least respected and least recognised tropical biomes. When it comes to teaching, my goal.

I blog interesting papers and technical tidbits here. But you can also find me writing about trees and adaptation over on The Modern Forest. Me, tell me about a great book. Or ask me to dance.

A weekly highlight of new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Friday, December 26, 2014. Benny the bark beetle and the not-so palatable pine. And other herbivores intending to lunch on enticing green needles or tender inner bark may be surprised to get a mouthful of nasty chemical compounds. Or gummy resin produced by these trees expressly for the purpose of deterring such intrusions. In the meantime I w.