• On the other hand, it has been generally accepted in evolutionary biology that genes duplicated from a single gene in the ancestral vertebrate undergo sub-functionalization, neo-functionalization, or non-functionalization ( Ohno, 1970 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Punctuated equilibrium is sometimes erroneously cited as evidence that evolutionary biology still hasn't figured out how evolution works. (berkeley.edu)
  • Now, a new study in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution , analyzing the largest molecular dataset to date, clarifies the tinamous' place on the evolutionary tree and offers clues about the origins of flightlessness. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Today's sloths might be known as slow, small animals, but their ancestors developed large body sizes at an amazing rate, according to an evolutionary reconstruction published today in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology . (biomedcentral.com)
  • 2. BMC Evolutionary Biology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of molecular and non-molecular evolution of all organisms, as well as phylogenetics and palaeontology. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There was a conference sponsored by the Royal Society last month, titled New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives . (scienceblogs.com)
  • To make progress in answering these basic questions of evolutionary cell biology, we analyze, as a concrete example, the cell polarity machinery of Saccharomyces cerevisiae . (biorxiv.org)
  • Read T. H. Huxley's 1875 Britannica essay on evolution & biology. (britannica.com)
  • GALVAO, Olavo F. . Reinforcement and contemporary evolutionary biology . (bvsalud.org)
  • He has authored more than 100 research articles in Bayesian m ethodol ogy, Baye sian computat ion, systems biology and stochastic modelling. (lu.se)
  • Molecular biology and evolution. (who.int)
  • The question of how and why genetic variation arises and is maintained over long periods of time is of key importance to evolutionary biology, population genetics and conservation biology. (lu.se)
  • Our study clarifies when, how and why this variation arose, and shows that this variation has been maintained over long evolutionary time periods through so-called balanced natural selection", says Erik Svensson, biology professor at Lund University. (lu.se)
  • Among my research interests are building large family trees of extinct species, understanding major evolutionary transitions (when organisms drastically change their body plans and expand into new environments), and using computed tomography scanning to study the biology and behaviours of extinct species. (lu.se)
  • The interdisciplinary science that studies evolutionary biology, including the origin and evolution of the major elements required for life, their processing in the interstellar medium and in protostellar systems. (bvsalud.org)
  • This field also includes the study of chemical evolution and the subsequent interactions between evolving biota and planetary evolution as well as the field of biology that deals with the study of extraterrestrial life. (bvsalud.org)
  • Evolutionary medicine can apply insights from evolution and ecology to spark transformational innovation in biomedicine and inform effective health policies. (evmedreview.com)
  • Ethology Ecology & Evolution (2022) 34 (5): 557. (karger.com)
  • Ecology and Evolution (2021) 11 (7): 3015. (karger.com)
  • The most cited articles from Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics published since 2020, extracted from Scopus . (elsevier.com)
  • Richard McElreath is professor and director of the Department of Human Behavior , Ecology and Culture at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany). (lu.se)
  • He has authored more than 100 research articles in ecology and human evolution. (lu.se)
  • In the new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution , a research team mapped the extensive and striking colour variation among the females of the bluetail damselfly ( Ischnura elegans ). (lu.se)
  • Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Denise Su of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Stephanie Melillo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, provide an up-to-date summary of hominin fossils found in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Chad during the Pliocene epoch, 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago. (iflscience.com)
  • Nov. 9, 2023 Rather than a slow, gradual process as Darwin envisioned, biologists can now see how evolutionary changes unfold on much more accelerated timescales. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This is precisely what these researchers have done by publishing an article in Nature Review Genetics . (reasons.org)
  • 8) Kumar S, Stecher G, Tamura K. (2016) MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets. (who.int)
  • 2013) On the evolutionary history, population genetics and diversity among isolates of Salmonella Enteritidis PFGE pattern JEGX01. (who.int)
  • Frontiers, as a Gold Open Access publisher, offsets all the costs associated with our high-quality publishing service through Article Processing Charges (APCs): articles that are accepted for publication by our external editors following rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to authors, institutions, or funders. (frontiersin.org)
  • The ability to perform genomic sequencing on long-dead organisms is opening new frontiers in evolutionary research. (biorxiv.org)
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (2022) 338 (8): 460. (karger.com)
  • Evolutionary Applications (2022) 15 (4): 603. (karger.com)
  • Recent literature on the kisspeptin of non-mammalian species suggests that the kiss1 and kiss2 systems may have undergone such evolutionary processes. (frontiersin.org)
  • This excerpted chapter from Carl Zimmer's book, The Tangled Bank, describes the evolutionary processes responsible for large scale patterns in the diversity of life through time. (berkeley.edu)
  • I am an inter-disciplinary researcher interested in understanding large-scale patterns and processes in the evolution of behaviour, cognition and culture. (dur.ac.uk)
  • Such features indicate to the investigators that these sequence elements were functional genes at one time in evolutionary history, but eventually lost function due to mutations or other biochemical processes, such as reverse transcription and DNA insertion. (reasons.org)
  • The researchers build on recent findings that evolutionary processes, in response to landscape change, are happening faster than previously thought. (lu.se)
  • Recently, however, it has become increasingly clear that evolutionary processes take place over much shorter timescales than previously thought. (lu.se)
  • These new genetic results help us understand both the evolutionary processes that take place within a species, and what happens over longer evolutionary macroevolutionary time scales of tens of millions of years and across several different species", concludes Erik Svensson. (lu.se)
  • Twenty years ago, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski of Michigan State University in East Lansing, US, took a single Escherichia coli bacterium and used its descendants to found 12 laboratory populations. (newscientist.com)
  • Lenski's experiment is also yet another poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists, notes Jerry Coyne , an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. (newscientist.com)
  • Every competent evolutionary biologist since the 1970s has embraced the mathematics of Kimura and Ohta and knows that evolution is not solely driven by selection, and at the same time, they have not shouted "Revolution! (scienceblogs.com)
  • I am a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who studies the anatomy, phylogeny, and evolution of fossil vertebrates, particularly dinosaurs, birds, and mammals. (lu.se)
  • I am a comparative anatomist, paleontologist, and evolutionary biologist. (lu.se)
  • Like all organisms, mantis shrimp carry baggage from their evolutionary history. (berkeley.edu)
  • An important and well supported hypothesis for the widespread evolutionary maintenance of sex in organisms in general is that sexual recombination creates genetic variation that allows organisms to stay ahead of their parasites in a never ending coevolutionary arms race. (eol.org)
  • Stebbins shares the credit for formulating and applying the modern synthetic theory of evolution to higher organisms. (britannica.com)
  • Researchers have recently focused on DNA sequences as a means for determining the evolutionary history of both viruses and their host organisms. (icr.org)
  • Instead, a chance event can sometimes open evolutionary doors for one population that remain forever closed to other populations with different histories. (newscientist.com)
  • Here, we argue that the steroid sensitivity of the kiss1 or kiss2 neurons has been well conserved during evolution among tetrapods and teleosts, and thus it may be the key to understanding the functional homologies of certain populations of kisspeptin ( kiss1 or kiss2 ) neurons among different species of vertebrates. (frontiersin.org)
  • To understand the parallel evolution of these genes in the kisspeptin neuronal systems, we here propose that the steroid sensitivity helps to identify the functionally equivalent neuronal populations among different species, because the steroid sensitivity appears to be the evolutionarily well conserved feature of certain populations of the kisspeptin neurons. (frontiersin.org)
  • Evolution is something that happens to populations , not individuals, and short-term evolutionary advantages are those that produce a benefit for the next generation. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The effect of bottleneck size on evolution in nested Darwinian populations. (mpg.de)
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics of nested Darwinian populations and the emergence of community-level heredity. (mpg.de)
  • We analyze population and strategy (= heritable phenotype) dynamics of the two populations under clade initiation (when species are introduced into a population), evolutionary tracking (constant, small changes in the environment), adaptive radiation (availability of multiple ecological niches), and evolutionary rescue (extreme environmental disturbances). (lu.se)
  • This has significance both for conservating species and for the future evolutionary potential of populations to adapt to rapidly changing environments. (lu.se)
  • Evolutionary dynamics should also guide the development of novel therapeutic approaches that target the development of treatment resistance in cancers and antimicrobial resistance. (evmedreview.com)
  • Effective management of the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and future zoonotic outbreaks requires applying evolutionary theories to understand and model infection dynamics and create models of future scenarios. (evmedreview.com)
  • By viewing this capacity as a trait, evolvability is subject to natural selection and thus plays a critical role in eco-evolutionary dynamics. (lu.se)
  • Finally, disrupting the environment at intermediate frequencies can result in coexistence with cyclical population dynamics of species with different rates of evolution. (lu.se)
  • This case study is based on a 2005 journal article that deals with the issue of sexual vs. asexual reproduction and their relative merits a question that has bedeviled biologists for more than a century. (berkeley.edu)
  • The publication of his Variation and Evolution in Plants (1950) established Stebbins as one of the first biologists to apply this theory to plant evolution. (britannica.com)
  • A key issue in evolutionary psychology has been how altruistic feelings and behaviors could have evolved, in both humans and nonhumans, when the process of natural selection is based on the multiplication over time only of those genes that adapt better to changes in the environment of the species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Not by genes alone : how culture transformed human evolution. (businessperspectives.org)
  • By comparing the similarities and differences between kiss1 and kiss2 of neuronal localization and sensitivity to gonadal steroids in various tetrapods and teleosts, we discuss the evolution of kisspeptin neuronal systems after gene duplication of ancestral kisspeptin genes to give rise to kiss1 and kiss2 . (frontiersin.org)
  • For example, the technical background provided with the study stated, "We estimated a neutral evolutionary rate for Xenarthan nuclear genes using a previously published alignment of three nuclear genes. (icr.org)
  • A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers' eyes. (newscientist.com)
  • In their study published in Science , the researchers correlated the evolutionary time of "divergence" for SloEFV (i.e., the time when it supposedly split off from its ancestor virus) with the assumed evolutionary date of divergence of its sloth host, along with several other hand-picked mammals, citing this correlation as evidence that the SloEFV evolved at least "39 million years" ago. (icr.org)
  • Once a DNA sequence is labeled a pseudogene, bias sets in and researchers just assume that it lacks function-not because it has been experimentally demonstrated to be nonfunctional, but because of the stereotyping that arises out of the evolutionary paradigm. (reasons.org)
  • This is the conclusion of an article published by BECC and CEC-affiliated researchers. (lu.se)
  • Major evolutionary transitions in individuality between humans and AI. (mpg.de)
  • Cite this article: Brian Thomas, Ph.D. 2019. (icr.org)
  • He is an author of over 100 scientific papers and three books, including The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (2019 ), and Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See (1998) . (evolutionaryleaders.net)
  • There are outstanding evolutionary questions on the recent emergence of human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 including the role of reservoir species, the role of recombination and its time of divergence from animal viruses. (nature.com)
  • This latter contribution is focused on the evolutionary emergence of cooperation. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • In this target article, I discuss the emergence and evolution of group-level traits and the implications for the theory of cultural evolution, including ramifications for the evolution of human cooperation, technology, and cultural institutions, and for the equivalency of multilevel selection and inclusive fitness approaches. (cambridge.org)
  • Here, we explore whether the temporal sequence of bone condensation predicts variation in the capacity of evolution to generate morphological diversity in proximal and distal forelimb segments across more than 600 species of mammals. (elifesciences.org)
  • This study reports an interesting analysis of evolutionary variation in forelimb/hand bone shapes in relation to functional and developmental variation along the proximo-distal axis. (elifesciences.org)
  • The authors found expected and compelling patterns of evolutionary shape variation along the proximo-distal axis but less expected, yet equally compelling, patterns of shape integration. (elifesciences.org)
  • The great colour variation in insects fascinates the general public, and raises questions about the function of colour signals and its evolutionary consequences for partner choice and conflicts between the sexes", says Erik Svensson. (lu.se)
  • We now have a good knowledge base for investigating the colour variation over longer evolutionary time scales among other species of this damselfly genus, which occurs in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America. (lu.se)
  • In The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience . (dur.ac.uk)
  • Descriptive evolutionary ethics seeks to explain various kinds of moral phenomena wholly or partly in genetic terms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Monday SR , Whittam T , Feng P . Genetic and evolutionary analysis of mutations in the gus A gene that caused the absence of β-glucuronidase activity in Escherichia coli O157:H7. (cdc.gov)
  • 1 Retroviruses have been said to be part of "junk DNA," considered by many to be genetic leftovers from an evolutionary past. (icr.org)
  • The established approach in genetic programming (GP) involves the definition of functions and terminals appropriate to the problem at hand, after which evolution of expression. (researchgate.net)
  • Repeated phenotypic evolution by different genetic routes in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25. (mpg.de)
  • Evolutionary ethics is a field of inquiry that explores how evolutionary theory might bear on our understanding of ethics or morality. (wikipedia.org)
  • For instance, some proponents of normative evolutionary ethics have argued that evolutionary theory undermines certain widely held views of humans' moral superiority over other animals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary metaethics asks how evolutionary theory bears on theories of ethical discourse, the question of whether objective moral values exist, and the possibility of objective moral knowledge. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, some evolutionary ethicists have appealed to evolutionary theory to defend various forms of moral anti-realism (the claim, roughly, that objective moral facts do not exist) and moral skepticism. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Neurology and Evolution of Humor, Laughter, and Smiling: The False Alarm Theory. (businessperspectives.org)
  • Explore just a few of the many cases in which evolutionary theory helps us understand and treat disease. (berkeley.edu)
  • established evolutionary theory. (berkeley.edu)
  • How About a New Theory of Evolution with Less Natural Selection? (scienceblogs.com)
  • You do know that evolutionary theory already includes multiple modes of evolutionary change beyond selection, and it has had them quantified and described since the 1930s, right? (scienceblogs.com)
  • That some gene states that have physiological or morphological effects in the adult persist for multiple generations is neither surprising nor requiring major renovations of evolutionary theory. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Specifically, this thesis makes two distinct contributions in the field of learning game theory and one in the field of evolutionary game theory. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The contribution of this thesis to evolutionary game theory is a systematic study of the extent to which the assumptions made in mainstream evolutionary game theory for the sake of tractability are affecting its conclusions. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • I propose a conceptual extension of the theory of cultural evolution, particularly related to the evolutionary competition between cultural groups. (cambridge.org)
  • And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events. (newscientist.com)
  • Interestingly, either kiss1 or kiss2 or both have been lost during evolution in many vertebrate species, and the functional significance of kiss1 or kiss2 for the central regulation of reproduction is suggested to vary according to the species. (frontiersin.org)
  • Understanding the evolutionary history of the Monterey Pine may help us conserve this species. (berkeley.edu)
  • After sandblasting and pulverizing an ancient moa toe bone to chemically extract and sequence the DNA, scientists compared its DNA with that of the other species and ran multiple computer models simulating molecular evolutionary changes. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • I am primarily a 'macro-evolutionary anthropologist', placing broad questions on the evolution of our species' extraordinary cognitive and cultural abilities in the wider context of vertebrate evolution. (dur.ac.uk)
  • If we ignore the fossil record and limit our studies to living sloths, as previous studies have done, there's a good chance that we'll miss out on the real story and maybe underestimate the extraordinarily complex evolution that produced the species that inhabit our world. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The team took information about all known sloth species, both living and in the fossil record, and tested how existing evolutionary models explained the range in body sizes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The authors say the method could be used to pry into the evolutionary past of other species. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Called the father of evolutionary botany, he was the first scientist to synthesize artificially a species of plant that was capable of thriving under natural conditions. (britannica.com)
  • By comparing historical samples ranging from the early 1800s to 1933 against modern day genomes, we document evolution across thousands of generations, including time periods that encompass the species' initial occupation of northern Europe and an era of rapidly increasing human activity. (biorxiv.org)
  • We find that when species are far from an eco-evolutionary equilibrium, faster-evolving species reach higher population sizes, and when species are close to an equilibrium, slower-evolving species are more successful. (lu.se)
  • We are facing a scientific revolution in the understanding of how human impacts on biodiversity affect ecosystem services - evolutionary studies can contribute to understanding not only changes in species composition but also how species adaptation affects important ecosystem services," says Mikael Pontarp. (lu.se)
  • The evolution of one species thus potentially also effects other species. (lu.se)
  • Seed and cones traits were mapped onto two recent phylogenies to help reveal the evolutionary history of seed dispersal syndromes. (springer.com)
  • The evolutionary history of Ephedra in North America suggests that the means of seed dispersal has been malleable. (springer.com)
  • Multiple analyses of these genomic data suggest that hybridization events have occurred throughout Ficus evolutionary history. (nature.com)
  • Across a large region of the virus genome, corresponding approximately to ORF1b, it did not cluster with any of the known bat coronaviruses indicating that recombination probably played a role in the evolutionary history of these viruses 5 , 7 . (nature.com)
  • These allowed him to replay history from any starting point he chose, by reviving the bacteria and letting evolution "replay" again. (newscientist.com)
  • Many modern human diseases result from mismatches between the ecologies in which we evolved and our modern environments, while others reflect life-history evolution - these insights have important implications for public health policies and disease-prevention efforts. (evmedreview.com)
  • What the evolutionary history of the dog tells us about another animal: ourselves. (wsj.com)
  • These were then dated based on an assumed evolutionary history. (icr.org)
  • Too often they regard the human genome as a repository of useless, nonfunctional DNA that arises as a vestige of evolutionary history. (reasons.org)
  • Article history: We present a universal optimization for generating a uniformly distributed integer in an interval, based on the underlying uniform distribution. (researchgate.net)
  • Evolutionary shifts were likely linked to changes in ecological conditions. (springer.com)
  • Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality. (mpg.de)
  • Bayesian evolutionary rate and divergence date estimates were shown to be consistent for these three approaches and for two different prior specifications of evolutionary rates based on HCoV-OC43 and MERS-CoV. (nature.com)
  • Descriptive evolutionary ethics consists of biological approaches to morality based on the alleged role of evolution in shaping human psychology and behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • Such approaches may be based in scientific fields such as evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, or ethology, and seek to explain certain human moral behaviors, capacities, and tendencies in evolutionary terms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Using evolutionary psychology, this paper presents a typology of advertising cues and explains their cross-cultural relevance and transportability. (businessperspectives.org)
  • 2008-2010: MSc in Evolutionary Psychology, University of Liverpool. (dur.ac.uk)
  • It facilitates exploration of the evolutionary forces driving anatomical changes in ancestral humans and can capture public attention. (bvsalud.org)
  • Reconstructing diet can offer an improved understanding toward the origin and evolution of modern humans. (bvsalud.org)
  • 2017-present: Assistant Professor in evolutionary approaches to cognition and culture, Durham University. (dur.ac.uk)
  • An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion: Connecting Evolution, Brain, Cognition, and Culture. (csun.edu)
  • For example, the nearly universal belief that incest is morally wrong might be explained as an evolutionary adaptation that furthered human survival. (wikipedia.org)
  • Normative (or prescriptive) evolutionary ethics, by contrast, seeks not to explain moral behavior, but to justify or debunk certain normative ethical theories or claims. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary principles can also be used to understand and address aspects of human behavior that impede biomedical innovation and public health (e.g., vaccine hesitancy). (evmedreview.com)
  • Evolution and Human Behavior , 37, 517-522. (csun.edu)
  • The purpose of this article is to present to behavior analysts the justification and basic ideas of biobehavioral approach. (bvsalud.org)
  • For the past almost 30 years, our team has explored numerous functional systems (e.g., jaw muscles and feeding, vascular anatomy and thermal physiology), but our work on the deep-time evolution of neural systems and behavior began in 2003 with an article in Nature on brain structure in pterosaurs and has continued ever since. (lu.se)
  • Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor. (mpg.de)
  • Supporters of evolutionary ethics have claimed that it has important implications in the fields of descriptive ethics, normative ethics, and metaethics. (wikipedia.org)
  • This article by several leaders in the field provides an inspirational vision of contributions evolutionary medicine can make. (evmedreview.com)
  • These insights deepen our understanding of recent evolution in a model system, and highlight the potential of future museomic studies. (biorxiv.org)
  • In recent decades, evolutionary ethics has become a lively topic of debate in both scientific and philosophical circles. (wikipedia.org)
  • The PhD student would use music as a model system to investigate the cultural evolution of complex behavioural sequences, using experimental and/or phylogenetic statistical approaches. (dur.ac.uk)
  • Secretary-General, International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion (present). (csun.edu)
  • The same SloEFV sequence has "persisted in a surprisingly unchanged form until today, supporting the idea that evolutionary constraint can maintain viral genomic conservation over many millions of years despite exceptionally high short-term rates of mutation. (icr.org)
  • Advertised Waist-to-Hip Ratios of Online Female Escorts: An Evolutionary Perspective. (businessperspectives.org)
  • Students read short excerpts of original statements on evolution from Jean Lamarck, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace to gain historical perspective and an understanding of the nature of science. (berkeley.edu)
  • An evolutionary perspective can help us better understand and, we hope, control this problem. (berkeley.edu)
  • An evolutionary perspective should be taken into account to ensure long-term crop pollination. (lu.se)
  • Distal elements not only exhibit greater shape diversity, but also show stronger within-element integration and, on average, faster evolutionary responses than intermediate and upper limb segments. (elifesciences.org)
  • The HLD 6 mandible provides further support for the high morphological diversity during late Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution. (bvsalud.org)
  • We think that the biggest gap in the whole of early vertebrate evolution, down the base of the whole tree, is gap between the jawless fishes and the first jawed fishes like these armoured Placoderms,' he said. (abc.net.au)
  • On the contrary, the rapid rate of change known by observation to take place in retroviral genomes, together with the similarities found in them today, supports the idea that the evolutionary time scale is "many millions of years" in error because the origin of both sloth and virus looks recent. (icr.org)
  • Is the Subject Area "Host-pathogen interactions" applicable to this article? (plos.org)
  • Descriptive evolutionary ethicists have also debated whether various types of moral phenomena should be seen as adaptations which have evolved because of their direct adaptive benefits, or spin-offs that evolved as side-effects of adaptive behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • We offer a range of article types to optimally support our various academic communities in communicating their results and research advances. (frontiersin.org)
  • A central invoicing platform removes the burden from authors and helps contribute to the growing number of research articles that are openly available to all. (frontiersin.org)
  • Nowadays, stellar evolution and the computation of stellar models are not only a research field in their own right, but they have also found wide application fields in fields such as population synthesis and galactic evolution. (aanda.org)
  • April-July 2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the evolution of animal construction, University of St Andrews, supervised by Prof Kevin Laland. (dur.ac.uk)
  • All peer-reviewed research articles published by BioMed Central are made immediately and freely accessible online, and are licensed to allow redistribution and reuse. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our editors will review what you've submitted and determine whether to revise the article. (britannica.com)
  • The tinamous' place on the evolutionary tree offers a glimpse into the origins of flightlessness. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • However, empirical studies that focus on the potential for interaction between animal pollination and hybridization to affect and contribute to evolutionary diversification are rare. (nature.com)
  • The article presents a model that can help us understand and predict pollination under different agricultural landscape management. (lu.se)
  • This paper proposes to explore the following question: can software evolution systems like FINCH, that evolve linear representations originating from a higher-level structural language, take advantage of building blocks inherent to that original language? (researchgate.net)
  • Meta-population structure and the evolutionary transition to multicellularity. (mpg.de)
  • It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait. (newscientist.com)
  • They espouse that evolution explains why gene sequences like SloEFV change rapidly over time, as well as why SloEFV in particular has changed hardly at all. (icr.org)
  • Our fee support program ensures that all articles that pass peer review can benefit from open access - regardless of the author's field or funding situation. (frontiersin.org)
  • For years, the world's top evolutionary scientists thought Placoderms died out and then somehow modern fish evolved. (abc.net.au)
  • Professor Long says the Amadeus Basin, east of Alice Springs, is another place where scientists could unlock the mysteries of evolution. (abc.net.au)
  • 2010-2014: PhD in primate brain evolution and sexual selection, University of St Andrews, supervised by Dr Gillian Brown and Prof Kevin Laland. (dur.ac.uk)
  • This commentary provides a thoughtful note of caution: "I used to think that the future of evolutionary medicine was unconditionally bright. (evmedreview.com)
  • In some cases, stellar evolutionary codes are therefore used by non-specialists, who may not necessarily have full understanding of all the model's intricacies as gained from years of studying stellar evolution. (aanda.org)