• 1 Kojonen argues that mainstream evolutionary theory is compatible with biology-based evidence of design. (evolutionnews.org)
  • He currently serves on several editorial boards of scientific journals, including the Journal of Evolutionary Biology . (nhbs.com)
  • This, I think, is why the pro-Darwin lobby resists our recommended policy of teaching public high school biology students more rather than less about evolution - the evidence not only for it but also against it. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Pro-evolution educators also regard it as just right to know that beak size has "evolved" among the finches of the Galápagos Islands, a tidbit that regularly pops up in high school biology textbooks. (evolutionnews.org)
  • This problem is so unhelpful for selling evolution that Darwinists in Texas tried to remove it from the state biology standards last year. (evolutionnews.org)
  • This 20 credit, semester 1 module aims to introduce students to key concepts in 21st century evolutionary biology. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Evolutionary-developmental biology (Evo-Devo) 3. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • After all, evolutionary theory is the backbone of chemistry and biology, the through-line that makes sense of all the sciences. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Research == Bill's current research crosses the disciplines of physics, evolutionary biology, epistemology, organization theory, and organizational knowledge management. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • He is attempting to develop a body of theory applicable to several levels of biological organization from cells to social systems, unifying concepts of life, information and knowledge across the paradigmatic disciplines of epistemology, biology, and the sciences of cognition, organization, information and knowledge management. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • Evolutionary Biology''' Bill's experiences as a child watching living marine and fresh water microorganisms through the microscope and teaching general and invertebrate biology in the 1960s led him to ask "What is life? (evodevouniverse.com)
  • J. Bruno’s paper on mimicry and camoulflage provides a â€Å"design-friendly†perspective on a perennial topic in evolutionary biology, and provides a â€Å"synthetic†perspective that tries to reconcile the two viewpoints. (uncommondescent.com)
  • G. Huang’s paper on empirical evidence for natural selection in the wild addresses a crucial topic in evolutionary biology: how we can objectively determine whether natural selection has actually affected the evolution of a particular species? (uncommondescent.com)
  • My interests reach throughout evolutionary biology and my work has made contact a wide range of topics, including developmental modeling, morphological evolution in both invertebrates and vertebrates, population and quantitative genetics, macroevolution, and the philosophical and conceptual basis of evolutionary theory. (ttu.edu)
  • BMC Evolutionary Biology. (ttu.edu)
  • With issues such as nature vs. nurture and natural selection vs. intelligent design continuing to spark heated public debate, a panel of scientists from Cornell University and the Paleontological Research Institute (PRI) offered their opinions and suggestions as to how evolutionary biology as a field can better extend its public reach and improve its controversial image. (cornellsun.com)
  • As part of a weeklong series of events honoring Charles Darwin, the panelists discussed "Evolutionary Biology: Past, Present and Future," Saturday evening in Uris Auditorium. (cornellsun.com)
  • Prof. Warren Allmon, earth and atmospheric sciences, and PRI director, welcomed the audience with opening remarks, explaining that the idea of the panel was not only to celebrate Darwin's birthday, but also to "explore the current status of evolutionary biology" and more importantly, answer the pertinent question, "So, what is evolutionary biology today and where is it going? (cornellsun.com)
  • As faculty members discussed their research and ideas with the audience, they reached a consensus that the field of evolutionary biology is becoming increasingly vital to the study of a diverse range of disciplines in biology. (cornellsun.com)
  • At Cornell, Kresovich said that the field of evolutionary biology, with strengths across the college, "has developed theories and approaches to answering questions such as: how many species are there, do animals cooperate with each other" and, most importantly, "why are cultivated tomatoes so big, and can you make them tastier? (cornellsun.com)
  • Prof. Richard Harrison, ecology and evolutionary biology, emphasized that evolutionary theory is crucial in understanding such modern crises as pesticide and herbicide resistance incidence and HIV resistance to drugs in the lifetime of the infected individual. (cornellsun.com)
  • His current research focuses on examining the genetics of natural populations and the application of modern molecular genetic techniques to answer questions in evolutionary biology. (cornellsun.com)
  • Prof. Amy McCune, ecology and evolutionary biology, who was trained as a paleontologist, recalled that when she began her career in the 1970s, the era was one of both "the slowest [with the] least innovation but also the beginning of the most interesting period" for evolutionary biology. (cornellsun.com)
  • McCune explained that the current challenge of evolutionary biology would be to examine the "similarities of development" between various, genetically related species, and to detect "changes in [the] genetic program responsible for differences in the structure and function" between them. (cornellsun.com)
  • the thoughts, results and methods [of evolutionary biology] are crucial to the understanding of how genes [and] cells work. (cornellsun.com)
  • Where does evolutionary biology go from here? (cornellsun.com)
  • With a hint of encouragement, she noted that the biology major at Cornell requires that students take an introductory course in Evolution, and hoped that this teaching will "train young scientists to take the evolutionary approach. (cornellsun.com)
  • Recent critics have consciously or unconsciously exaggerated the long-lasting influence of the MS on contemporary evolutionary biology and have underestimated many post-Synthesis developments, particularly Neutral Theory, evolutionary quantitative genetics and the power and generality of the Price Equation. (lu.se)
  • Critics have also painted a biased picture of the MS as a more monolithic research tradition than it ever was and have downplayed the pluralistic nature of contemporary evolutionary biology, particularly the long-lasting influence of Sewall Wright with his emphasis on gene interactions and stochasticity. (lu.se)
  • I argue that some of the criticisms of the MS and contemporary evolutionary biology are primarily meta-scientific, revealing the underlying identity politics of critics when pushing their alternative research agendas. (lu.se)
  • Finally, I outline and visualize the conceptually split landscape of contemporary evolutionary biology, with four different stably coexisting analytical frameworks: adaptationism, mutationism, neutralism and selectionism. (lu.se)
  • It integrates with research advances in multiple disciplines and bridges laws of physics, evolution in biology, and harmonious development of human society. (preprints.org)
  • He also has strong interests in the history of biology, including Linnaeus and the germ theory of disease, and evolutionary biology during political transitions in Germany. (rbge.org.uk)
  • EXPLABIO aims at investigating modes of explanations in evolutionary biology, in order to assess current attempts to extend or revise the classical framework (elaborated in 1930-1950) called "Modern Synthesis", that was centered on the crucial explanatory role of population genetics as the science of the process of evolution by natural selection. (cirad.fr)
  • We assume that recent advances in ecology, molecular biology and evolutionary theory of development ("Evo-Devo") are characterized by novel explanatory structures and features, that call for a new account of the explanatory nature of evolutionary biology. (cirad.fr)
  • My BSc was focused on organisms' biology and ecology while my MSc was focused on evolutionary and functional ecology, more particularly in theory and modelling. (lu.se)
  • Proponents of the "Extended Evolutionary Synthesis" don't have anything significant to add to our current understanding of evolutionary theory. (blogspot.com)
  • For the vast majority of biologists, evolution is nothing more than natural selection," he wrote in 2007. (blogspot.com)
  • As with so many of the arguments that divide evolutionary biologists today, this comes down to a matter of emphasis. (blogspot.com)
  • They are used by evolutionary biologists but they do not specifically describe any specific genetic or selective process. (skeptoid.com)
  • Prof. Hudson Kern Reeve, neurobiology and behavior, noted that "we as evolutionary biologists have not been good at publicizing results [and] stirring excitement and broader implications" in the public arena. (cornellsun.com)
  • For evolutionary biologists, the space of explanations is structured along two axes, namely the two questions: "How does selection proceed? (cirad.fr)
  • EXPLABIO will be carried on by a team of philosophers of science, evolutionary and molecular biologists and ecologists, including two post-docs hired for the project. (cirad.fr)
  • Hubbell's "neutral theory of ecology") and evolution (i.e. (cirad.fr)
  • We propose that evolutionary ecology considerations can explain this apparent paradox. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, the eye of an eagle, for example, is fully accounted for by evolutionary processes and also counts as strong evidence of design - all without the intervention or superintendence of God per se. (evolutionnews.org)
  • In The Compatibility of Evolution and Design , theologian E. V. Rope Kojonen constructs a powerful argument that not only are evolution and design compatible, but that evolutionary processes (and biological data) strongly point to design. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Evolution is compared with the cosmological processes of structure formation. (ufn.ru)
  • A stochastic version of the Price equation reveals the interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes in evolution. (ttu.edu)
  • Many scientists argue that the chemical building blocks of the DNA molecule can be explained by natural evolutionary processes. (allaboutscience.org)
  • Evolution theory has convinced many people that the design in our world is merely "apparent" -- just the result of random, natural processes. (allaboutscience.org)
  • Biological invasions of non-native species present compelling motivation to understand how human-induced changes in the environment and species distributions influence ecological and evolutionary processes. (google.com)
  • is because in the case of science, it tral argument of this chapter is that is theory that structures understand- theoretical blindfolds can lead to Cancer inequities: this short phrase ing of causal processes (Ziman, needless suffering and preventable encompasses a plethora of ideas. (who.int)
  • that theorizing is concerned with of cancer inequitable, within and Although the centrality of theory causal processes, agency, and ac- across populations and the places to scientific observation and causal countability, and not solely empirical and time periods they inhabit, it is inference has been recognized for observation of differences. (who.int)
  • Our research thus improves our general understanding of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that underpin the eco-evolutionary processes that drive ecosystem dynamics including population sizes, traits evolution and diversification. (lu.se)
  • Do the results really demonstrate that knowing more about science and evolution increases a student's willingness to accept evolutionary theory? (evolutionnews.org)
  • Due to the long history, current state, and high profile of the evolution-creation debate in the United States, we are led to believe religious people writ large simply do not accept evolutionary theory," wrote researchers Ecklund and Scheitle. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Second, Kojonen appeals to the bacterial flagellum to strengthen his case for design, yet the type of design in the flagellum is incompatible with mainstream evolutionary theory, which (again) damages his reconciliation of design with evolution. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Throughout the book, Kojonen offers nuanced arguments, appropriate qualifications, and respectful engagement with both mainstream evolutionary theory and contemporary notions of design. (evolutionnews.org)
  • A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. (blogspot.com)
  • I suggest that the field can accommodate the challenges raised by critics, although structuralism ("Evo Devo") and macroevolution remain to be conceptually integrated within mainstream evolutionary theory. (lu.se)
  • Even if an organism is used to express the gene of interest, by mutagenising only that gene the rest of the organism's genome remains the same and can be ignored for the evolution experiment (to the extent of providing a constant genetic environment). (wikipedia.org)
  • When evolutionary theorist Andreas Wagner says that "over thousands and millions of generations, copy error after tolerable copy error can thus accumulate and slowly change a protein's amino acid sequence," 4 he's envisioning-not observing-the wishful evolutionary outcome of copious random genetic variation. (icr.org)
  • It was replaced by a more modern version that includes Neutral Theory, Nearly-Neutral Theory, and the importance of random genetic drift. (blogspot.com)
  • Appreciate the various types of genetic marker, the technology involved in their use, and their potential utility in population and ecological genetics, taxonomy, disease and evolution. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Since adaptation is the main macroscopic outcome of Darwinian evolution, studying its patterns of change could potentially provide insight into key issues of evolutionary theory, from fixation dynamics to the genetic architecture of organisms. (frontiersin.org)
  • Therefore, the patterns of adaptive change could potentially inform about key issues of evolutionary theory, from fixation dynamics to the genetic architecture of organisms. (frontiersin.org)
  • Organizational Knowledge Management''' Failing to find an academic position where he could prosecute his interests in genetic systems, speciation and evolution, in the early 1980s Bill moved into industry where he became a document, content and organizational knowledge management systems analyst and designer. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • One is caused by new genetic information in which a new species arises, and is the evolution that is disputed by creationists. (skeptoid.com)
  • The other form of macro evolution is speciation due to a loss of genetic data. (skeptoid.com)
  • Theoretical approaches to the evolution of development and genetic architecture. (ttu.edu)
  • A general population genetic theory for the evolution of developmental interactions. (ttu.edu)
  • Contrary to the current theories of evolutionary scientists, the information contained within the genetic code must be entirely independent of the chemical makeup of the DNA molecule. (allaboutscience.org)
  • More recent critics partly recycle these old arguments and argue that non-genetic inheritance, niche construction, phenotypic plasticity and developmental bias necessitate major revision of evolutionary theory. (lu.se)
  • To provide the empirical data needed to confirm or refute evolutionary theories of musicality, our project will systematically examine the presence, range and complexity of RAs in our closest genetic relative, the chimpanzee. (lu.se)
  • Have a clear understanding of the principles of evolution by natural selection and some basic theories in population genetics, as well as an appreciation of current debates in evolutionary theory and the role of embryonic development in morphological change. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Evolutionary relationships of animal phyla are based on DNA and molecular evidence due to the lack of fossil evidence of ancestral species. (answersingenesis.org)
  • He "says the new fossil species adds a 'dazzling new piece to the complicated puzzle of early bird evolution', showing just how blurred the distinctions are between groups in this area of the dinosaur evolutionary tree. (creation.com)
  • Be able to explain how contemporary bioinformatic tools can be used to delimit species and to investigate intraspecific variation from an evolutionary perspective. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Rather, the evolutionary theory he espoused in "On the Origin of Species" rendered God unnecessary. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • To gain insight into its nature, we performed a comparative analysis of published datasets from experimental evolution in a variety of species. (frontiersin.org)
  • Anthropology is the study of humankind around the world and throughout time, with the goal of understanding our evolutionary origins, our biological distinction as a species, and our diverse manifestations of culture. (losrios.edu)
  • Refers to any evolutionary change at or above the level of species. (skeptoid.com)
  • It means at least the splitting of a species into two (speciation, or cladogenesis, from the Greek meaning "the origin of a branch") or the change of a species over time into another Any changes that occur at higher levels, such as the evolution of new families, phyla or genera, are also therefore macroevolution, but the term is not restricted to those higher levels. (skeptoid.com)
  • His current work focuses on the role of diseases in determining species range limits, host- pathogen co-evolution, and the dynamics of sexually transmitted diseases. (rbge.org.uk)
  • After mentioning that some animals play silently and others noisily, as well as citing some brain activity that accompanies these behaviors, the authors wrote, 'Equivalents of laughter across a variety of species is indicative of play's origins and its evolutionary significance. (icr.org)
  • The Turner Lab is working to understand the evolutionary impact that invasive species and land use change has had on big sagebrush, and how big sagebrush may be able to adapt to and succeed in the face of these pressures. (google.com)
  • Theory predicts that dramatic ecological and evolutionary changes affect invasive species soon upon arrival in a new habitat. (google.com)
  • For what it is worth, if evolution is the process that accounts for the creation of life, or the ability for one species to evolve into another, it would not disprove the existence of God. (wizbangblog.com)
  • Current evolutionary theories of musicality increasingly agree that RAs constitute the most ancient component of musicality, and urgently demand cross-species, comparative empirical research. (lu.se)
  • Here, we conducted a 10-day, fully factorial evolution experiment to examine how phage impact the structure and dynamics of an artificial four-species bacterial community that includes either Pseudomonas aeruginosa wild type or an isogenic mutant unable to evolve phage resistance through CRISPR-Cas. (bvsalud.org)
  • A perennial question in discussions about biological origins is whether or not intelligent design is compatible with evolutionary theory. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Directed evolution has its origins in the 1960s with the evolution of RNA molecules in the "Spiegelman's Monster" experiment. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is hardly surprising, then, that we have so many gaps in the evolutionary history of life, gaps in such key areas as the origin of the multicellular organisms, the origin of vertebrates, not to mention the origins of most invertebrate groups. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Along with Hill's research, the book-and now the Pew study-give a fuller picture than the Gallup poll numbers released in 2017, which concluded that 50 percent of Protestants and other Christians hold a creationist view of origins, believing that God created humans in their current form less than 10,000 years ago. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Questions of origins and evolution are interpreted differently in different cultures, and as Mathisen shows, these concepts are not viewed with the same importance nor with the same presuppositions that generally pertain in America and western Europe. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Schaub analyzes the work of Pascal Boyer and Scott Atran among others, showing how their evolutionary and anthropological theories of the origins of religion are intimately tied to the evolution of altruism, a subject of much debate and research during the second half of the 20th century. (uncommondescent.com)
  • 1 In their review of current research on the subject, the ambiguity of evolutionary origins for play was only accentuated. (icr.org)
  • Even after renewed research efforts, animal play continues to defy evolutionary origins. (icr.org)
  • The objections to Darwin's theory are discussed and rejected. (ufn.ru)
  • In conclusion, the sufficiency of material and time for evolution and the correctness of Darwin's theory are noted. (ufn.ru)
  • According to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, an organism's behavior is supposedly motivated by the biological imperative of survival. (icr.org)
  • How has the theory of biological evolution changed since Darwin's time? (epicofevolution.com)
  • Several time the terms "Macroevolution" and "Microevolution" have been used by commentators articulating what I would term a denial of evolutionary science. (skeptoid.com)
  • It provides novel explanations for origin of life (abiogenesis), macroevolution, natural selection, sympatric speciation, evolution tempos, animal group evolution, and human society development in a comprehensive and comprehensible way. (preprints.org)
  • His research focuses on evolutionary theory and how evolution impacts the development of Jewish ritual practice. (timesofisrael.com)
  • In addressing the actors and mechanisms of technological change, Dr Saviotti focuses first on changes in product technology and then examines the evolution of organizations with special reference to their use of information and knowledge. (e-elgar.com)
  • An in-depth discussion of the present state of evolutionary theories focuses on their methodological foundations and applicability to learning in organizations. (e-elgar.com)
  • My theoretical work currently focuses on two broad areas: 1) developing a rigorous theoretical framework for the study of developmental evolution, and 2) the mathematical and conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory. (ttu.edu)
  • Evolution and genetics in the 19th century (the "Modern Synthesis") 2. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • One of the most recurrent observations after two decades of microbial evolution experiments regards the dynamics of fitness change. (frontiersin.org)
  • Using an evolutionary framework, he develops a model of technological evolution based on replicator dynamics which explicitly introduces these key actors and mechanisms. (e-elgar.com)
  • A Model of Technological Evolution based on Replicator Dynamics Part III: 7. (e-elgar.com)
  • Eco-evolutionary models of spatiotemporal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities. (lu.se)
  • The aim of my PhD is to assess, through modelling, the effects that these eco-evolutionary dynamics (i.e. demographic and evolutionary dynamics) have on biological pest control. (lu.se)
  • It's safe to assume that much of the American public, religious or not, does not have detailed knowledge about evolution or the mechanisms which drive it. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Despite their differences, evolution at both of these levels relies on the same, established mechanisms of evolutionary change. (skeptoid.com)
  • We deduce from thermodynamics the driving force, the progressive mechanisms, and the major steps of evolution of CBEs, and hence establish a comprehensive evolutionary theory termed the CBE evolutionary theory (CBEET). (preprints.org)
  • Do age-specific survival patterns of wild boar fit current evolutionary theories of senescence? (hal.science)
  • As an extension of these early efforts, Elie Metchnikoff established an evolutionary vision of immunity, development, pathology, and senescence, in which phagocyte-driven selection and struggle promote adaptive changes in an organism. (philpapers.org)
  • Adaptation is, by definition, the main macroscopic outcome of Darwinian evolution. (frontiersin.org)
  • His analyses of natural selection in Galapagos finches and Labrabor blue/snow geese points out that natural selection, while central to the neo-darwinian theory of evolution, is difficult to measure in natural populations, requiring many years of careful demographic analysis and challenging field work. (uncommondescent.com)
  • J. Schaub’s paper on the implications of darwinian evolution for altruism and religion is a commentary on the current state of understanding in those fields. (uncommondescent.com)
  • The abruptness and similarities of these evolutionary leaps calls into question the Darwinian theory of evolution, given that there are no traces of any intermediate evolutionary forms. (overdrive.com)
  • The development of directed evolution methods was honored in 2018 with the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frances Arnold for evolution of enzymes, and George Smith and Gregory Winter for phage display. (wikipedia.org)
  • Microbial evolutionary medicine: from theory to clinical practice. (cdc.gov)
  • Recent and current empirical projects in my lab include: the role of heterochrony in human brain evolution, morphological evolution in snails and ammonites, and the mechanics of speciation in rotifers. (ttu.edu)
  • A longstanding question in science and religion is whether standard evolutionary models are compatible with the claim that the world was designed. (evolutionnews.org)
  • His view aligns with Gould's understanding that evolution requires copious "hecatombs of death as pre-conditions for limited increments of change" in "a theory of 'trial and error externalism,'" 5 which reinforces science philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith's understanding that evolution "can be described loosely as 'trial and error. (icr.org)
  • Instead they pushed something they called "creation science" and tried to get it admitted into the public school science classroom as a competitor to the theory of evolution. (skepdic.com)
  • They attacked the theory of evolution in every way imaginable and they argued that "creation science" should be taught in the science classroom along with evolution as a matter of fairness, so that students could decide for themselves which theory best explains all the facts. (skepdic.com)
  • It is now international and Web sites attacking evolution and promoting the Bible as the true foundation for science and culture have proliferated. (skepdic.com)
  • ID is not a religious theory, so it won't be subject to the same criticisms that "creation science" was subject to. (skepdic.com)
  • In Religion vs. Science , Elaine Ecklund, at Rice University, and Chris Scheitle, at West Virginia University, add to the body of work indicating that the issues of creationism and evolution are far more complex than a single survey question and that the divides on creation aren't as deep as we once thought. (christianitytoday.com)
  • This blind acceptance […] has led to a lot of sloppy thinking, and is probably the primary reason why evolution is viewed as a soft science by much of society. (blogspot.com)
  • This is the basic story of evolution, as recounted in countless textbooks and pop-science bestsellers. (blogspot.com)
  • Human evolution is "one of the highest hurdles - if not the highest hurdle - to science education in America," says Smithsonian's Rick Potts. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Still, by 2010 Potts says he realized that the only people coming to the exhibit were those who had no quarrel with the science of evolution. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Human evolution is also "one of the highest hurdles - if not the highest hurdle - to science education in America," says Potts, a 64-year-old with wire-rim glasses and a gentle demeanor. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • But merely teaching evolutionary science wasn't the point. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Taking the idea of evolution from science and run with it is for sure not the same as illuminating its intricate workings. (integralworld.net)
  • Where the first five can be seen as legitimate schools of thought within evolutionary science, the last half a dozen are increasingly cases of speculative thought, based on some religious or philosophical point of view, culminating in integral philosophy, which claims to be able to 'integrate' all of them-or at least to the extent they have truth on their side. (integralworld.net)
  • The history of science is chock-full of false theories that explain some of the evidence. (blogspot.com)
  • The latter sections of this paper briefly discuss the scientific method and the relevance of creation theory to science and to the church. (grisda.org)
  • It is helpful to think of the hypothesis and theory as tools of science. (grisda.org)
  • In science theories are much closer to laws than they are to hypotheses. (wizbangblog.com)
  • The current wave of crusaders who are trying to accomplish the same goals as the "creation scientists" have a new tactic. (skepdic.com)
  • It is scientists who are working on what are described as the "flaws" in evolution. (wizbangblog.com)
  • If there were clear survival advantages to animal play, then evolutionists would connect that survival factor with an evolutionary past, even without establishing a heritable basis for such a complicated behavior. (icr.org)
  • The Current Ethology publishes research articles, theoretical articles, critical review articles, book reviews, short communications and readers' letters on any animal behavior topic including human behavior. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the first, the archetypal evolution experiment, populations derived from the same ancestor are serially propagated in a new environment. (frontiersin.org)
  • His research is on the evolution and epidemiology of infectious diseases in natural populations. (rbge.org.uk)
  • Yet current research relies on sampling contemporary populations, and therefore reveals little about the initial stages of invasion. (google.com)
  • The continuing evolution of biological nomenclature. (koeltz.com)
  • Yet, traditional nomenclature poorly reflects evolutionary theory. (koeltz.com)
  • Current biological nomenclature is one of the few fields promoting deliberately vague usage of technical terms. (koeltz.com)
  • A new code based on evolutionary studies and phylogenetic results (the PhyloCode) will be a major milestone in biological nomenclature. (koeltz.com)
  • More importantly, after adopting phylogenetic nomenclature early in his career, he served the ISPN (International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature), which develops and promotes a new code of biological nomenclature (the PhyloCode ) as both Secretary (several terms, including a current one) and President. (nhbs.com)
  • True, the raw materials for evolution-the variations between individuals-are indeed produced by chance mutations. (icr.org)
  • So there is real danger that using tools such as bed-nets and intermittent preventive therapy will be insufficient to stop evolutionary mutations spreading. (theconversation.com)
  • Lungs and other organs have evolved independently in terrestrial animals, including mollusks and arthropods, as some mollusks lost their shells in recent evolutionary development. (answersingenesis.org)
  • The link between individual and evolutionary development is studied. (ufn.ru)
  • Technological Evolution, Variety and the Economy discusses the fundamental role played by qualitative change in economic development, the contribution made by technological change and innovation, and the analysis of these phenomena in terms of evolutionary theories. (e-elgar.com)
  • In this work Saviotti has made a substantive contribution to the development of a set of new concepts and, hopefully, the growth of variety within economic theory. (e-elgar.com)
  • The evolution of canalization and the breaking of von Baers laws: modeling the evolution of development with epistasis. (ttu.edu)
  • Humanity's current stage of development has finally reached the point where the secret messages of these structures can be decoded to reveal the fate of humanity in the coming Earth changes. (overdrive.com)
  • A succinct statement of the general theory of creation has long been needed to provide the basis for its discussion and development. (grisda.org)
  • The study's authors offered a mixture of interesting observations from recent studies of animal play along with confused, unscientific 'explanations' within an evolutionary context. (icr.org)
  • The review failed to clarify the ambiguity of evolutionary explanations of play. (icr.org)
  • Of course, natural evolution samples variant sequences close to functional protein sequences and this is imitated in DE by mutagenising an already functional gene. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some calculations suggest it is entirely feasible that for all practical (i.e. functional and structural) purposes, protein sequence space has been fully explored during the course of evolution of life on Earth. (wikipedia.org)
  • We have designed and analysed an eco-evolutionary and functional-trait-based model of three interacting trophic levels and we have simulated adaptation and diversification in traits as a response to eco-evolutionary feedbacks. (lu.se)
  • Proponents of the current strategies to eliminate malaria and neglected tropical disease parasites are right to say that we should use existing tools to save lives and prevent illness. (theconversation.com)
  • The results are presented of current studies that indicate the inconstancy of genomes, with various pathways of altering their structure and regulation. (ufn.ru)
  • Evolutionary change requires informational increases in the genomes of organisms. (skeptoid.com)
  • Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, and their derivatives), buddhism is much more easily reconciled with the basic principles of evolution by natural selection. (uncommondescent.com)
  • The molecular foundations of evolution and the neutralist theory, according to which the evolution of proteins and nucleic acids occurs to a considerable extent independently of natural selection, are studied in detail. (ufn.ru)
  • Evolutionary Theory: Mathematical and conceptual foundations. (ttu.edu)
  • In a few pages he laid the foundations for understanding the evolution of memes. (radgeek.com)
  • Many Christians affirm evolution once researchers leave room for God's role in it. (christianitytoday.com)
  • At least 10 of the 19 sites the Smithsonian visited were deemed "challenging" - places where the researchers suspected that evolution might still be a contentious subject, for religious or other reasons. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • That's why, for him, human evolution is the perfect topic to break down entrenched barriers between people in an increasingly polarized, politicized world. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Nonetheless, even though this framework is useful to better understand this system's community assembly it originally does not include evolution. (lu.se)
  • The first step in performing a cycle of directed evolution is the generation of a library of variant genes. (wikipedia.org)
  • In other words, memetic evolution can now take off without regard to its effects on the genes. (radgeek.com)
  • The evolutionary significance of the value of information, as defined as its nonredundancy, or irreplaceability, is stressed. (ufn.ru)
  • These questions are left unanswered, accentuating the barrenness of empty rhetoric about an assumed 'evolutionary significance. (icr.org)
  • Wolfner agreed, but added that such "unfortunate reasons" and circumstances such as HIV, antibiotic resistance and the avian flu have introduced evolutionary concepts to the general public. (cornellsun.com)
  • The first reports on the proportionality of the rate of adaptation and initial fitness originated in the context of compensatory evolution. (frontiersin.org)
  • Our current research aims at exploring the constituents of the Milky Way, from an evolutionary, chemical, and dynamical point of view, and embedding our understanding of them in a cosmological context. (lu.se)
  • Such an elaborate scheme immediately raises the question about the validity of each of these approaches to evolution. (integralworld.net)
  • In this highly readable and informative essay, Phipps distinguished no less than twelve approaches to evolution. (integralworld.net)
  • Possible sociological and other consequences of the discovery of extraterrestrial life and/or of extraterrestrial intelligence · historical perspectives: Shifting thoughts about extraterrestrial life throughout the times have received training in · interdisciplinary approaches within astrobiology as a distinctly multidisciplinary subject · literature searches within research topics close to current research frontlines. (lu.se)
  • Obviously we have no record of the origin of life, and little or no evolutionary history of the soft-bodied organisms. (answersingenesis.org)
  • This regularity suggests that general principles may be found across diverse evolving organisms, pointing to the intriguing prospect that evolution might perhaps be predictable at the macroscopic level ( Good and Desai, 2015 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • A sufficient material for evolution is indicated, as determined by the vast supply of variability of organisms. (ufn.ru)
  • The first premise is not strictly true: evolution is defined as the adaptation of a population of organisms to its natural environment, and this does not necessarily require the information of the genome to increase. (skeptoid.com)
  • Techniques for ancient DNA originally developed to study long extinct organisms such as mammoths are being used to study evolution over the course of the 100 year invasion of North America by crossflower ( Chorispora tenella , Brassicaceae), a widespread and governmentally listed noxious invasive weed. (google.com)
  • The creationists, of course, just love to draw attention to these gaps, which they score as points against evolution. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Similarly, in a 2013 study by Jonathan Hill, a sociology professor at Calvin College, a third of creationists said that being correct about the creationism theory wasn't important. (christianitytoday.com)
  • No scientist has said that theories are "gospel" (which is very much unlike creationists whose "theory" IS gospel). (wizbangblog.com)
  • The usual explanation of how we got these stupendously complex organs rests upon the theory of natural selection. (blogspot.com)
  • Evolution requires three things to happen: variation between replicators, that the variation causes fitness differences upon which selection acts, and that this variation is heritable. (wikipedia.org)
  • As we saw in last month's article , evolutionary theory requires accidental, non-purposeful, random variation as the source of adaptive traits. (icr.org)
  • Coyne may not realize why he insists on "chance" variation, or believes that it's "willy-nilly" concerning purpose, or how these fit into theory…but Darwin certainly did. (icr.org)
  • Last month's article noted Stephen Jay Gould's acknowledgment that Darwin saw the "specter" of directed variation as disastrous to his theory. (icr.org)
  • Like the tail wagging the dog, evolutionary theory-not evidence-demands that variation be copious, gradual, and undirected. (icr.org)
  • Directed evolution is used both for protein engineering as an alternative to rationally designing modified proteins, as well as for experimental evolution studies of fundamental evolutionary principles in a controlled, laboratory environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, we re-analyze several published datasets from experimental evolution with microbes and show that, despite large differences in the origin of the data, a pattern of inverse dependence of adaptability with fitness clearly emerges. (frontiersin.org)
  • Many Americans reject evolution, the paper suggests, because they're uninformed. (evolutionnews.org)
  • When given the opportunity to say that God played a role in evolution, many Christians will reject the classic creationist viewpoint. (christianitytoday.com)
  • First, his argument for design (and its compatibility with evolution) relies upon a particular view of nature in which fitness landscapes are "fine-tuned" to allow proteins to evolve from one form to another by mutation and selection. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Bill's approach to understand how organizations formed and used knowledge to succeed was based on his evolutionary thinking and studies of epistemology. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • But using them may force an evolutionary change in the mollusc population to make them resistant to the chemical itself. (theconversation.com)
  • More broadly we must consider how environmental change might force evolution to occur among parasites, their vectors and their human or animal hosts. (theconversation.com)
  • A recurrent pattern that emerges from a variety of experimental systems is that the rate of change in fitness over time (i.e., rate of adaptation) depends on the current level of adaptation of a genotype. (frontiersin.org)
  • With qualitative technological change as its central theme and featuring detailed discussion of the current state of evolutionary theories, Technological Evolution, Variety and the Economy will be welcomed by economists working in innovation, technical change and industrial organization. (e-elgar.com)
  • This book takes an evolutionary approach to technological change and economic growth. (e-elgar.com)
  • Human evolution through developmental change. (ttu.edu)
  • Their documented geographic spread across time makes them ideal for study using historic collections, allowing better insight to evolutionary change over short time scales. (google.com)
  • Evolutionary theory, properly understood, is both scientifically correct and compatible with a certain type of biological design argument. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Directed evolution (DE) is a method used in protein engineering that mimics the process of natural selection to steer proteins or nucleic acids toward a user-defined goal. (wikipedia.org)
  • Like baby bear's porridge in the Goldilocks tale, it's just right to know that evolution is not a purely random process - that natural selection plays a clever role. (evolutionnews.org)
  • However, it is clear that even though the defenders of ID claim that it is a scientific theory and a serious alternative to natural selection or other naturalistic theories of evolution, it isn't. (skepdic.com)
  • namely, the over-emphasis on natural selection as the only significant player in evolution. (blogspot.com)
  • The student should be able to give a general account of · the earliest traces of life on Earth Theories of the origin of life. (lu.se)
  • The universality of this phenomenon suggests that its emergence might be understood from general principles, giving rise to the exciting prospect that evolution might be statistically predictable at the macroscopic level. (frontiersin.org)
  • I f you aren't caught on one side of the evolution debates, it can be hard to grasp what all the fuss is about. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • it meets adaptive needs for a range of current environmental conditions, otherwise, it would have crashed. (behavior.net)