While the exponential equation is a useful model of population dynamics (i.e., changes in population numbers over time), in the real world we are not swimming in bacteria, or Paramecium ...

An even more ancient event could also be detected that might pre-date the divergence of the Tetrahymena and Paramecium genera. By piecing together the WGD events 19,552 genes were estimated to be ...

There it is! Now that is a paramecium. It may look like a simple animal, but in fact it's a member of a group of organisms called protists and you'd have to go back around two billion years to ...