• Understanding the mechanisms that generate phenotypic variation and their impact on the course of evolution is a central challenge in modern biology. (gulbenkian.pt)
  • Evolutionary developmental biology (informally, evo-devo) is a field of biological research that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to infer how developmental processes evolved. (wikipedia.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)
  • Evolutionary developmental biology and the limits of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation. (springer.com)
  • Evolvability as the proper focus of evolutionary developmental biology. (springer.com)
  • 2014). Means the begining of a new science the Evolutionary-Developmental Biology (EVO-DEVO) recently the most developping part of Biology, involves all modern innovations and methods to study genetical, epigenetical regulations and system based thinking about the varieties of gene and cell functions. (pte.hu)
  • I recommend it warmly to anybody with a serious interest in developmental and evolutionary biology. (mit.edu)
  • This February, the Santa Fe Institute hosts an international workshop to explore a more integrative approach to thinking about evolutionary biology. (santafe.edu)
  • EBIO Departmental Honors is a program for students in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department who engage in independent research with a faculty advisor and write and defend an Honors thesis. (colorado.edu)
  • The B.S. degree in evolutionary anthropology is designed for students interested in archaeology, biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, geoarchaeology, or other related fields in human evolutionary studies (e.g., skeletal biology, forensic science, primatology). (rutgers.edu)
  • My lab uses developmental genetics, molecular biology, morphometrics and phylogenetics to understand the interactions and functions of genes in various insect models. (colby.edu)
  • Studies of development are important to evolutionary biology for several reasons. (berkeley.edu)
  • BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 179. (marineornithology.org)
  • According to Bowler, non-Darwinian theories of evolution were widely accepted in the late 19th century and focused attention on conceptual issues that have now been reopened by evolutionary developmental biology . (rationalwiki.org)
  • On the Master's programme in Evolutionary Biology you will learn how to unravel the history of life by examining diversification, adaptation, and how the evolutionary process itself evolves. (lu.se)
  • Evolution affects biology at all levels, from molecules to ecosystems, and our courses and research projects provide unique opportunities to study this diversity. (lu.se)
  • You will acquire conceptual and methodological skills in molecular and genome evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, and evolutionary ecology. (lu.se)
  • Our teaching promotes an active, inquiry-based learning that is integrated with our Department's world-leading research on the evolutionary biology of microbes, plants, and animals. (lu.se)
  • The course is an elective second cycle component of a Master of Science degree in Biology and a compulsory second cycle component of a Master of Science degree in Biology specialising in Evolutionary Biology. (lu.se)
  • The general aim of the course is to enable students to understand the aims, theories, models and methodologies of contemporary evolutionary biology, and how these are applied to different biological systems. (lu.se)
  • The course will enable students to acquire extensive knowledge and understanding of fundamental topics in evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • The course will explain how the history of life can be unravelled through studies of genes and genomes, developmental biology, and the features of extant organisms and fossils. (lu.se)
  • This requires an integrative approach - from molecular and developmental biology to ecology - guided by mathematical modelling and conceptual analysis. (lu.se)
  • We discuss the implications of this new model to the relationship between psychology and biology, and we suggest that the interactionist ideas of developmental psychology should help biologists in the construction of a new theory of evolution. (bvsalud.org)
  • This graduate course in evolutionary biology emphasises the various evolutionary processes rather than descriptions of states, patterns and the methods to establish them. (lu.se)
  • The emergence of cooperation is a central question in evolutionary biology. (cdc.gov)
  • While progress has been made in recent years in the characterisation of pulmonary carcinoids, little is known about the underlying biology or developmental origins of these molecular groups, hampering efforts to identify predictive markers and suitable therapeutic options. (who.int)
  • Finally, I will briefly explore the developmental processes that lead to these phenotypic biases. (gulbenkian.pt)
  • Animals were seen to develop into adults of widely differing body plan, often through similar stages, from the egg, but zoologists knew almost nothing about how embryonic development was controlled at the molecular level, and therefore equally little about how developmental processes had evolved. (wikipedia.org)
  • The February workshop includes 30 researchers who are discussing the history of our understanding of inherited information and how epigenetic inheritance, cultural inheritance, and developmental processes complicate standard evolutionary theory. (santafe.edu)
  • What it means is that you can't derive the organism from the mere sequence of the genome - that is, the genomic information is not sufficient to comprehend morphology, because developmental processes add extra-genomic information to the generation of the organism. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The developmental investigation of sound transmitting apparatus is important in understanding the ontogenetic processes behind morphological diversity. (scielo.br)
  • Even diseases such as cancer can be understood as pathological developmental and evolutionary processes. (cam.ac.uk)
  • In the " modern synthesis " of neo-Darwinism, which developed in the period from 1930 to 1950 as a result of reconciliation of evolution by natural selection with genetics, macroevolution is defined as the combined effects of microevolutionary processes. (rationalwiki.org)
  • The projects in my group span across a range of topics, but are often designed to reveal how functional processes of organisms - development, physiology and behaviour - influence their evolution. (lu.se)
  • Imposed upon this gross morphological description is the modern understanding of gene expression and protein elucidation, which bring about these developmental processes. (medscape.com)
  • I also teach on a range of undergraduate courses including Genes and Genomes, Genetics and Evolution and Health and Disease. (ljmu.ac.uk)
  • 2015). The extended evolutionary synthesis: Its structure, core assumptions, and predictions. (springer.com)
  • A corroboration of the extended evolutionary synthesis. (springer.com)
  • Together, the eight institutions hope to build an "extended" evolutionary synthesis. (santafe.edu)
  • Fellow co-organizer Kevin Laland (St. Andrews University), an SFI Science Board member, says: "The extended evolutionary synthesis is not a rejection of orthodox Darwinism, but rather an attempt to explore whether it is useful to think about the evolutionary process in a different way. (santafe.edu)
  • Evolution and genetics in the 19th century (the "Modern Synthesis") 2. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • The two groups ultimately resolved their differences with an understanding called the Modern Synthesis, which remains the formal foundation of our understanding of evolution. (santafe.edu)
  • The Modern Synthesis says, in essence, that natural selection drives evolutionary change by changing gene frequencies in populations of organisms. (santafe.edu)
  • The separation of development and inheritance brought to prominence with the Modern Synthesis was hailed as a major advance in evolutionary thinking. (santafe.edu)
  • The same care needs to be taken with "Non-Darwinian evolution" - if it were generally accepted it would be part of the Modern Synthesis . (rationalwiki.org)
  • Evolutionary biologists often acknowledge the inaccuracy of the drawings but continue to regard the recapitulation "theory" 2 and its variants as valid. (answersingenesis.org)
  • On the strength of its popularity among evolutionary biologists, the idea has gained wide acceptance even in other disciplines such as linguistics and developmental psychology. (answersingenesis.org)
  • It means developmental biologists have job security (yay! (scienceblogs.com)
  • This is not to imply that the genomic information is unimportant, only that understanding it requires complementing it with an understanding of cell:cell interactions, signaling, signal transduction, induction, and molecular patterning…all stuff that developmental biologists love. (scienceblogs.com)
  • integrating an understanding of mechanisms into life history theory will be one of the most exciting tasks facing evolutionary biologists in the 21st century. (unifr.ch)
  • Bowler, who has written The Eclipse of Darwinism: anti-Darwinian evolutionary theories in the decades around 1900 (1983), has described a period called the eclipse of Darwinism which discusses the state of affairs prior to the neo-Darwinian synthesis , when evolution was widely accepted in scientific circles, but relatively few biologists believed that natural selection was its primary mechanism. (rationalwiki.org)
  • As the major evolutionary transitions model (see Section VI.H.8) steadily gains acceptance, akin to Sebe-Pedros 2017, University of Zurich and Princeton University systems biologists and ecologists (search each) add a more detailed explanation of how simpler individual organic forms may proceed to join and merge into complex, aggregate whole units. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • The integration of development and evolution also raises conceptual issues, which I explore in contributions aimed towards biologists and philosophers of science. (lu.se)
  • We are interested in the population genetics and evolutionary genomics of adaptation , mainly by using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as an experimentally tractable model. (unifr.ch)
  • To address these longstanding problems we combine population genetics and population genomics, functional genetics, transcriptomics, physiology, and experimental evolution and apply them to natural and laboratory populations of D. melanogaster that are phenotypically differentiated for fitness-related traits. (unifr.ch)
  • However, because of the long-lasting interest in conventional laboratory animal models such as the mouse, there is no general genetic or developmental model of craniofacial evolution and diversification in vertebrates. (helsinki.fi)
  • Finally, we will review the evolution of this protein family, which, albeit of relatively recent origin, present only in insects and crustaceans, has undergone extensive diversification, including gene loss and duplication. (nih.gov)
  • Our main research focus is the identification of the evolutionary and developmental forces involved in morphological diversification among Arthropods. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • It will explain why evolution by natural selection gives rise to adaptation, what are the causes of diversification and novelty, and how the evolutionary process itself can evolve. (lu.se)
  • Current research projects include how phenotypic plasticity influences adaptive diversification, the evolutionary causes and consequences of extra-genetic inheritance, and the genetic, developmental and ecological factors underlying evolution through introgressive hybridization. (lu.se)
  • Evolution: The extended synthesis (pp. 355-378). (springer.com)
  • 2010). Evolution: The extended synthesis . (springer.com)
  • A groundbreaking synthesis of evolutionary theory arguing that induced and acquired changes also play a role in evolution. (mit.edu)
  • The new synthesis advanced by Jablonka and Lamb makes clear that induced and acquired changes also play a role in evolution. (mit.edu)
  • They were largely abandoned when population genetics and the modern evolutionary synthesis demonstrated the explanatory power of natural selection. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Non-Darwinian evolution is in opposition to the neo-Darwinian synthesis , which ascribes a central role to natural selection . (rationalwiki.org)
  • Understanding such biases in the introduction of phenotypic variation is therefore essential to reveal which phenotypes can be explored and selected in the evolutionary process. (gulbenkian.pt)
  • Despite this, it is still poorly understood whether such developmental genetic biases in the production of phenotypic variation influence evolutionary rates. (gulbenkian.pt)
  • For this, I will use the homologous cellular framework of vulval precursor cells in two nematode clades that have divergent evolutionary trajectories of cell-fate variation. (gulbenkian.pt)
  • 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)
  • 2012). The generation of variation and the developmental basis for evolutionary novelty. (springer.com)
  • While some dedicated evolutionists debate which variation of the recapitulation theory is best, others claim it is a valid predictor of evolutionary stages and try to unravel the deep evolutionary past shrouded by what they claim is an "incomplete" fossil record. (answersingenesis.org)
  • However, still little is known about the genetic basis of variation and evolutionary changes in such fitness-related traits. (unifr.ch)
  • By taking advantage of next generation sequencing technology (RNAseq) and the power of various well established genetic tools in Drosophila, we want to identify the developmental genes responsible for the observed variation in head morphology. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • The evolutionary plasticity of stages in different phylogenetical development and their clinically interesting motional and cytoskeletal role will be reviewed during this course. (pte.hu)
  • Implicit in model of evolutionary psychology are the ideas that (1) to each evolutionary increment in the problem solving ability of animals, there is a correlated increment in the neural network that underlies performance and that (2) more plasticity is correlated to more information within the cognitive system. (bvsalud.org)
  • The increase in neural modules does not seem to be the only evolutionary route to the enhancement of behavioral plasticity. (bvsalud.org)
  • Now if all you get from this is that the genome and organism are complex, interlocking, interdependent features that are so immensely and tightly integrated that evolution must be impossible, you aren't thinking like a developmental biologist yet. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Prof Brooks is an evolutionary biologist who pioneered the integration of phylogenetic information and ecology and behavior, with a personal focus on parasite-host systems. (kli.ac.at)
  • As an evolutionary biologist, you will be uniquely suited to understand living systems, and to solve problems that require collaboration across disciplines. (lu.se)
  • The process of development may limit or bias the phenotypic spectrum obtained after random mutation, deemed developmental bias. (gulbenkian.pt)
  • First, I will show that the evolution of developmental biases predicts more than 80 million years of divergent phenotypic evolutionary rates. (gulbenkian.pt)
  • Second, I will demonstrate that fast phenotypic evolutionary rate is based on a broad mutational target size rather than high mutational rates. (gulbenkian.pt)
  • Squamate reptiles represent ideal model systems for understanding phenotypic diversity and developmental disorders, as they exhibit an extraordinary array of life-styles, ecologies and craniofacial features representing patterns found across mammalian and non-mammalian taxa. (helsinki.fi)
  • To understand the evolution of stochastic phenotypic variance as a response to stochastic environments, much can be learned from bacteria. (nature.com)
  • However, environmental factors can also impose constraints on the evolutionary trajectories of organisms leading to convergence of morphology in similar ecological contexts. (datadryad.org)
  • Here, we review instructive examples of living organisms solving diverse problems and propose competent navigation in arbitrary spaces as an invariant for thinking about the scaling of cognition during evolution. (mdpi.com)
  • The construction of new organizational layers results from hierarchical evolutionary transitions, in which biological units (e.g., cells) form groups that evolve into new units of biological organization (e.g., multicellular organisms). (naturalgenesis.net)
  • Evolutionary morphology and evo-devo: Hierarchy and novelty. (springer.com)
  • We are mainly interested in the evolution of head morphology in insects (Drosophila melanogaster, Tribolium castaneum) and chelicerates (spiders). (uni-goettingen.de)
  • 2012) Evolution of Eye Morphology and Rhodopsin Expression in the Drosophila melanogaster Species Subgroup. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • Her KLI Visiting Fellowship facilitated a collaborative project with resident KLI Fellow and evolutionary anthropologist Nicole Grunstra on the adaptive covariation between pelvic and thoracic morphology in humans. (kli.ac.at)
  • This morphology is observed irrespective of the phylogenetic relationships among species suggesting that the aquatic environment does indeed drive the evolution of head shape in snakes, thus biasing the evolutionary trajectory of this group of animals. (datadryad.org)
  • In what ways can evolutionary changes in the development of an organism affect its morphology? (berkeley.edu)
  • Researchers of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg now discovered the evolutionary origin of this epigenetic phenomenon called dosage compensation. (mpg.de)
  • 19th century zoology thus converted embryology into an evolutionary science, connecting phylogeny with homologies between the germ layers of embryos. (wikipedia.org)
  • Altogether, I will show how the evolution of the variational properties of cell-fate decision and their underlying developmental genetic mechanisms explain the evolution of evolutionary rates. (gulbenkian.pt)
  • What is transmitted are the developmental means to reconstruct life cycles, raising the possibility that non-genetic mechanisms of heredity can contribute to the evolutionary process in ways that standard conceptualizations struggle to accommodate. (santafe.edu)
  • wrote that as late as 1930, most textbooks still emphasized non-Darwinian mechanisms of evolution. (rationalwiki.org)
  • It is only concerned with denying or downplaying the "Darwinian" mechanisms of evolution, such as natural selection or sexual selection . (rationalwiki.org)
  • Most non-Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms also deny gradualism . (rationalwiki.org)
  • Non-Darwinian evolutionary scientists such as (Shapiro, 2011) deny that genetic mechanisms can fit into a Darwinian framework (see below). (rationalwiki.org)
  • That is, they admit that macroevolution occurs, but think that normal genetic change is restricted by such proposed mechanisms as developmental constraints. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Does the efficiency of evolution, crafting endless forms most beautiful from a meager number of genes, suggest mechanisms for the blossoming of creative behavior in Homo sapiens? (abainternational.org)
  • The hypothesis that animal cognition is not a single general problem solving mechanism but consists of multiple specific mechanisms referred to by evolutionary psychologists as cognitive modules is prevailing in the literature. (bvsalud.org)
  • Ecology and Evolution (2021) 11 (7): 3015. (karger.com)
  • Spring 2021 was an exciting time for pelvis research with four new papers on the evolution of the human pelvis and birth canal. (kli.ac.at)
  • Il s'agit d'une étude rétrospective descriptive et analytique, multicentrique portant sur des patients de moins de 5ans pris en charge pour une affection neurochirurgicale de Janvier 2019 à Décembre 2021 à Libreville. (bvsalud.org)
  • Ethology Ecology & Evolution (2022) 34 (5): 557. (karger.com)
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (2022) 338 (8): 460. (karger.com)
  • Evolutionary Applications (2022) 15 (4): 603. (karger.com)
  • Professor Jin is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems , and Editor-in-Chief of Springer's free Open Access Journal Complex & Intelligent Systems. (soft-computing.de)
  • 2002). Facial attractiveness: Evolutionary, cognitive, and social perspectives . (brandeis.edu)
  • Homeostasis and the physiological dimension of niche construction theory in ecology and evolution. (springer.com)
  • A recapitulation theory of evolutionary development was proposed by Étienne Serres in 1824-26, echoing the 1808 ideas of Johann Friedrich Meckel. (wikipedia.org)
  • To many people, the evolutionary principles underlying recapitulation theory are fundamental truths, so the theory retains its authority in their thinking even when it does not fit the observable facts. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Thus, recapitulation theory continues to fuel the evolutionary thinking of students from the cradle to college, the lay public, and many academic professionals. (answersingenesis.org)
  • This option prepares students with a multidisciplinary, science-oriented background for careers in the field of evolutionary anthropology. (rutgers.edu)
  • The tables below list Evolutionary Anthropology courses that are offered in a regular rotation. (rutgers.edu)
  • 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)
  • Should evolutionary theory evolve? (springer.com)
  • Although false representations, Haeckel's drawings have continued to be presented in textbooks as "proof" of the general theory of evolution and recapitulation in particular. (answersingenesis.org)
  • It remains a tool to explain evolutionary dogma to students and to get them to take the theory of evolution for granted. (answersingenesis.org)
  • When Charles Darwin published his idea of natural selection as a mechanism for the evolution of species, in 1859, he had no theory of inheritance. (santafe.edu)
  • Previous theory suggests that spatial structure can promote evolution of cooperation, but the diffusion of public goods introduces new phenomena that must be modeled explicitly. (cdc.gov)
  • To these data we applied the evolutionary theory of task specialisation (ParetoTI) to identify and characterise distinct archetypes, i.e. molecular subtypes, of LNETs. (who.int)
  • This approach highlights the crucial role of the ecology and development of the solitary ancestor in the emergence and subsequent evolution of groups, and it stresses the paramount importance of the life cycle: only by evaluating groups in the context of their life cycle can we unravel the evolutionary trajectory of hierarchical transitions. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • Evolutionary trajectories are often biased by developmental and historical factors. (datadryad.org)
  • Guided by six central questions, we propose an integrative bottom-up approach for studying the dynamics underlying hierarchical evolutionary transitions, which builds on and synthesizes existing knowledge. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • Craniofacial tissues such as skull bones, teeth, and the brain are finely tuned to meet functional and ecological demands with tremendous precision, and their evolution has been a major driving force in the expansion of vertebrate lineages. (helsinki.fi)
  • This implies that placoderms may be uniquely informative about the evolution of gnathostome body architecture, the single most dramatic morphological transformation in vertebrate evolution and a key step in our own ancestry. (plos.org)
  • In particular, the earliest and most primitive placoderms have great potential to illuminate the evolution of jawed vertebrate traits. (plos.org)
  • In order to understand what a particular gene does, you have to understand what all the other genes do, as well as all the details of signaling and cell interactions that are going on, oh, and also, it's entire developmental history, since epigenetic interactions can shape the future behavior of a cell lineage. (scienceblogs.com)
  • and the rapid evolution of genes involved in nuclearmitochondrial interactions that are implicated in spedation. (lu.se)
  • Additionally, we are trying to establish the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum as model for morphological evolution by screening several populations for morphological differences. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • My research and courses explore how development and genetics intersect with morphological evolution. (colby.edu)
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 318B, 501-517. (springer.com)
  • Countless people have been convinced by the wonders of the developing embryo-falsely portrayed-that evolution must be true. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Some anatomical structures in the developing embryo disappear completely or regress substantially once they serve their developmental purpose, remaining only as scar-like vestiges (literally, "footprints") in the mature human. (answersingenesis.org)
  • 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)
  • The ecological approach to person perception: Evolutionary roots and contemporary offshoots. (brandeis.edu)
  • Haeckel produced these artistic drawings, supposedly based on his own specimens 1 of different embryos, claiming that all of them pass through stages reminiscent of their evolutionary ancestors. (answersingenesis.org)
  • One evolutionary idea is that embryos of different kinds pass through similar developmental stages. (creation.com)
  • Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb have been challenging orthodoxy and promoting heresy in genetics and evolution for twenty years. (mit.edu)
  • Evolution & Development, 9, 393-401. (springer.com)
  • Many researchers now attempt to integrate these components of development into their understanding of evolution through an extended conception of evolution. (santafe.edu)
  • Ask an evo-devo person about this stuff, and they'll tell you that this is great…the way development works makes evolution of form easy . (scienceblogs.com)
  • In a more classical Evo-Devo approach we aim to identify the genes and developmental pathways involved in spider eye development. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • My lab is currently studying the development and evolution of alternative wing morphs in the red shouldered soapberry bug ( Jadera haematoloma ). (colby.edu)
  • How does studying an organism's development help us understand its evolutionary relationships? (berkeley.edu)
  • A developmental process is a morphologically observable event such as limb bud formation or the development of digits. (medscape.com)
  • The evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is occurring at an alarming rate and is outpacing the development of new countermeasures. (cdc.gov)
  • 2016). Data from: Does aquatic foraging impact head shape evolution in snakes? (datadryad.org)
  • nevertheless, the illusion of simplicity seems to fit the evolutionary story that comparative embryology supposedly tells. (answersingenesis.org)
  • A second SFI workshop funded by the same grant is planned for November, which will discuss how developmental experiences bias evolutionary outcomes. (santafe.edu)
  • Several projects make use of mathematical modelling to predict or interpret evolutionary outcomes. (lu.se)
  • In the latter section, we will present some of the best-studied developmental events where E(spl) function has been analysed as well as the molecular mechanism of E(spl) activity that has transpired. (nih.gov)
  • Non-Darwinian evolution is any mechanism which tends to downplay the role of natural selection in evolution . (rationalwiki.org)
  • Most scientists of this period did not deny natural selection , they just said it either has no role in evolution or only has a minor role as a mechanism. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Evolution and Social Psychology , (pp. 81-113). (brandeis.edu)
  • The course makes use of a wide range of examples to illustrate how different biological systems, models, methods, and types of data can reveal how evolution works. (lu.se)
  • The nested and interrelated signaling pathways that bring about a specific developmental process are known as developmental cascades. (medscape.com)
  • Explain the evolutionary 'mitochondrial Eve' (or 'out of Africa') and 'Y-chromosome Adam' concepts. (creation.com)
  • Non-Darwinian evolution was proposed because many scientists did not believe natural selection was powerful enough to explain evolution . (rationalwiki.org)
  • If not, in phenomena such as Haploinsufficiency, aneuploidy or other forms of chromosome abnormality, these gene dosage alterations can cause severe defects ultimately resulting in developmental failures and disease. (mpg.de)
  • Ultimately, it examines how an evolutionary perspective can be applied to phenomena at all levels of biological organisation, from molecules to ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • We study these questions, e.g., in the context of climate adaptation and life-history clines across latitudinal gradients, chromosomal inversion polymorphisms maintained by spatially varying selection and other forms of balancing selection, and the evolution of aging and trade-offs associated with longevity and other fitness traits. (unifr.ch)
  • Do human embryos replay the evolutionary history of their species as they develop? (answersingenesis.org)
  • Do developing embryos really replay the evolutionary history of their species as they develop? (answersingenesis.org)
  • Another evolutionary idea is that embryos trace their alleged evolutionary ancestry as they develop. (creation.com)
  • He has delivered over 14 Keynote speeches at international conferences on morphogenetic robotics and morphogenetic self-organizing systems, developmental neural computation, modeling and analysis of gene regulatory networks, evolutionary optimization in dynamic and uncertain environments and multi-objective machine learning. (soft-computing.de)
  • Since the second part of 20th century many publications interested in a novel issue, that all biologically relevant questions should be answered if we consider as a stage of a developmental process (Richardson et al. (pte.hu)
  • We always wondered how dosage compensation as a process to equalize gene expression of one entire chromosome could arise in the evolution of these insects," explains Asifa Akhtar the main motivation of the study. (mpg.de)
  • The course will also provide a deep understanding of the evolutionary process. (lu.se)
  • But the idea that developmental experiences can have evolutionary consequences persisted. (santafe.edu)
  • Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. (mit.edu)
  • In Evolution in Four Dimensions , Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb argue that there is more to heredity than genes. (mit.edu)