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But unlike most flowers, which attract a range of pollinators with sweet nectar, these masters of deception deploy other tactics– like pretending to be an insect’s mate, letting off alluring scents, and mimicking the appearance of other species.
But the most vital component of sexual deception is scent: orchids mimic the precise scent of a single insect species.
Over the course of many thousands of years, random compound combinations have given some orchid species precisely the same signature scent as particular insect species.
This matching scent allows them to attract male pollinators who fall over and over again for the flowers masquerading as females of their own species.
One species not only has the colour and appearance of rotting meat; it emits a scent of decay as well– drawing in flies who deposit their eggs on the flower and unwittingly pollinate the plant.
Random genetic mutations in orchids may result in a trait– like a scent or a shape– that, by chance, matches the needs of a single insect species.
Able to make more seeds and offspring with the help of its dedicated pollinators, the orchid successfully reproduces in isolation, and becomes a new species.
But because of their dependence on sometimes just one pollinator species, orchids are also vulnerable, and many quickly go extinct.
Over time, though, more orchid species have formed than died out, and orchids are some of the most diverse flowering plants.
What they've done is taken all the genetic information they have about all the species, and they've put a tree of life on a single page that you can zoom in and out of.
The first one is, we're starting to redesign species.
To find out, my colleague Craig Joseph and I read through the literature on anthropology, on culture variation in morality and also on evolutionary psychology, looking for matches: What sorts of things do people talk about across disciplines that you find across cultures and even species?
Here you see submissive gestures from two members of very closely related species.
Species are often named based on a skull, a lower jaw, or, very rarely, a handful of postcranial, or below-the-neck, elements.
The research team that I was invited to join was tasked with describing, comparing and analyzing the fossils, with the difficult goal of identifying to what species the fossils belonged.
Each body part seemed to come from a different species, based on what we knew from the fossil record.
The suite of characteristics we were seeing didn't match any known species.
Or perhaps it should be its own species.
Ultimately, after much deliberation, we decided the Rising Star specimens did indeed warrant a new species, which we called "Homo naledi."
We say they have "low intraspecific variations," so the variation within the species is low.
No other species exists with this mix of primitive and derived traits.
Another implication for these fossils is that for the first time, we have concrete evidence of a species coexisting in Africa, at 300,000 years, with modern humans.
Brain size has historically played a key role in identifying a species as a tool user.
Furthermore, Homo naledi, even with its small brain size, has a hand-wrist morphology similar to other species that did make and use stone tools, suggesting it had the capability.
With two species coexisting in Africa at 300,000 years, we can no longer assume we know the maker of tools at sites with no associated species.
96 percent of all fish species died during the Hangenberg event, 359 million years ago: an interval of fire and ice.
And they found opportunity, proliferated, and won the future for their 60,000 living species, including you.
As long as a handful of species survive, life will recover.
There are 10,000 species in the world, and each one of them is uniquely beautiful.
Indeed, these species have conquered this world.
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