• explaining why lineages split into multiple distinct species is one of the main goals of evolutionary biology. (nhbs.com)
  • This novel book presents a synthetic overview of the evolutionary biology of species, describing what species are, how they form, the consequences of species boundaries and diversity for evolution, and patterns of species accumulation over time. (nhbs.com)
  • Understanding how large-scale environmental variability may shape the distribution of phenotypic variation remains central to evolutionary biology. (frontiersin.org)
  • Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart, lungs, and the liver, is common in evolutionary biology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some evolutionary psychologists argue that evolutionary theory can provide a foundational, metatheoretical framework that integrates the entire field of psychology in the same way evolutionary biology has for biology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Proponents suggest that it seeks to integrate psychology into the other natural sciences, rooting it in the organizing theory of biology (evolutionary theory), and thus understanding psychology as a branch of biology. (wikipedia.org)
  • By sharing his infectious love of the wonders of evolutionary biology, Wilson inspired countless others with his impassioned vision about the need to safeguard biological diversity. (skeptic.com)
  • In episode 150 of The Michael Shermer Show, Harvard professor of human evolutionary biology Daniel Lieberman discusses his pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity in his book Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding. (skeptic.com)
  • Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of biology concerned with the study of the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth . (wikimedia.org)
  • A doctoral degree in psychology (or a related discipline such as evolutionary biology or biological anthropology) is usually necessary to pursue a career as an evolutionary psychologist. (psychologytoday.com)
  • As evolutionary psychology is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding human nature, a range of courses grounded in evolution would be useful, especially those in genetics , animal behavior , evolutionary biology, biological anthropology, and of course evolutionary psychology. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Soares, an assistant professor of biology, and University of Maryland biology lecturer Hilary S. Bierman used high speed videography and digital imaging to analyze the jumping behavior of nine guppies from the wild Trinidadian species. (phys.org)
  • Is the Subject Area "Evolutionary biology" applicable to this article? (plos.org)
  • Changes in a single color-vision gene demonstrate convergent evolutionary adaptations in widely separated species and across vastly different time scales, according to a study publishing on April 11 in the open access journal PLOS Biology by David Marques of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and colleagues. (sciencedaily.com)
  • These data support the emerging view in evolutionary biology that mechanisms underlying adaptive evolution are often highly repeatable and thus may be predictable," said Marques. (sciencedaily.com)
  • 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)
  • International Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2012. (wikipedia.org)
  • The project combines methods of fine-grain molecular phylogeography and a long-term field study of the biology of the model species in several geographically distant model subpopulations and is expected to provide a complex information on the Mediterranean fruit bat including estimates of its total abundance and a critical reexamination of its biogeographic specificities. (muni.cz)
  • We conclude the chapter with a discussion of how character displacement serves to unify evolutionary biology and ecology. (ucpress.edu)
  • Evolutionary Biology: Latest Research & News Unveiled! (freescience.info)
  • This is where evolutionary biology , the study of how species change over time, and coevolution , the ecological relationship between different organisms, come into play. (freescience.info)
  • With an authoritative tone and simple language, let's dive deeper into this captivating realm of evolutionary biology, which encompasses the study of organisms and their adaptations over time. (freescience.info)
  • Evolutionary biology, with its focus on the adaptation of species to their environment, is crucial for understanding the intricate workings of ecological systems. (freescience.info)
  • One of the primary contributions of evolutionary biology to ecology is its ability to elucidate how biologists study and understand the ecological adaptations of species. (freescience.info)
  • Evolutionary biology, including the study of genetic diversity and population structure, is crucial for guiding conservation efforts. (freescience.info)
  • The study of coevolution, an integral part of evolutionary biology, uncovers fascinating interactions between different species within ecosystems. (freescience.info)
  • Ecology and evolutionary biology provide valuable tools for biologists to make accurate predictions about these responses. (freescience.info)
  • The course is the first course on the MSc programme in Evolutionary Biology. (lu.se)
  • Our teaching promotes active, inquiry-based learning that takes advantage of our Department's world-leading research on the evolutionary biology of microbes, plants and animals. (lu.se)
  • The course is structured around four key problem agendas in evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • The latest schedule for the course Evolutionary Biology - Patterns and Processes in the schedule software TimeEdit. (lu.se)
  • Two new studies of researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the University of OsnabrĆ¼ck provide the first evidence that a cooperatively breeding bird species (Arabian babblers) demonstrates distinct hallmarks of joint-attentional skills, which have been traditionally ascribed to humans only. (mpg.de)
  • The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology focuses on matters regarding the origins of humankind. (mpg.de)
  • Elspeth Ready from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig regularly travels to the Canadian Arctic for research. (mpg.de)
  • The psychologist Daniel Haun, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, has made cultural diversity a focal topic of his research. (mpg.de)
  • Roman Wittig, who heads up the TaĆÆ Chimpanzee Project at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, knows what happens when a virus changes its host, and has experienced it several times in the TaĆÆ National Park in the RĆ©publique de CĆ“te d'Ivoire, the last time having been four years ago, when a coronavirus that is harmless to humans jumped from humans to chimpanzees. (mpg.de)
  • Taking a wider view of species and speciation, this intellectually stimulating book is a welcome addition to the Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution. (nhbs.com)
  • Defining species and understanding the processes behind speciation are key components in studies of evolutionary ecology (1,2). (researchsquare.com)
  • There's this basic idea in ecology of the niche, that a species' lifestyle, like what it eats and how it fits into the environment, cannot be replicated in the same community," says Dr Rick Ree, a curator at the Field Museum in Chicago, US. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Chemical and evolutionary ecology of herbivore defense in an iconic tree species. (iastate.edu)
  • Biologists in this field explore the intricate connections between genetics, physiology, and ecology to understand how species evolve and survive in their environments. (freescience.info)
  • Evolutionary biology's contributions to ecology are undeniable. (freescience.info)
  • 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)
  • Here we build on these observations and hypothesize that selection in mixed-species animal societies, such as mixed-species bird flocks, may drive diversification, potentially leading to speciation. (nsf.gov)
  • We propose a series of steps that can be used to tease apart alternative hypotheses to build our understanding of the potential role of convergence in diversification in participants of mixed-species societies. (nsf.gov)
  • In Sahara-Sahel, climatic oscillations shifted the desert extent during the Pliocene-Pleistocene interval, triggering the diversification of several species. (researchsquare.com)
  • Main conclusions: Most of the species studied here diversified into distinct Mojave and Sonoran lineages prior to the LGM - supporting older diversification hypotheses. (usgs.gov)
  • In particular, we examine how such selection--whether stemming from competition for resources or access to successful reproduction--can promote evolutionary diversification through a process known as "character displacement" (sensu Brown and Wilson 1956). (ucpress.edu)
  • Can convergence in mixed-species flocks lead to evolutionary divergence? (nsf.gov)
  • Even if our social convergence/divergence hypothesis is not supported, the testing at each step should help highlight alternative processes that may affect mixed-species flocks, trait evolution and possible convergence. (nsf.gov)
  • The overlapping ecological preferences at a macro-geographic scale and the ecological divergence at the micro-habitat scale suggest that local adaptation may have played a crucial role in the speciation process of these species. (researchsquare.com)
  • Evolutionary trees of life are branching diagrams that depict hypothesized relationships-the historical pattern of divergence and descent between taxa-as a series of branches that merge at internal branches representing common ancestry, which in turn are connected with more distant relatives. (springer.com)
  • Our goals were (1) to determine whether phylogenetic lineages and population expansions were consistent with younger Pleistocene climate fluctuation hypotheses or much older events predicted by pre-Pleistocene vicariance hypotheses, (2) to assess concordance in spatial patterns of genetic divergence and diversity among species and (3) to identify regional evolutionary hotspots of divergence and diversity and assess their conservation status. (usgs.gov)
  • We mapped interpopulation genetic divergence and intra-population genetic diversity in a GIS to identify hotspots of highest genetic divergence and diversity and to assess whether protected lands overlapped with evolutionary hotspots. (usgs.gov)
  • Results: In seven of the 12 species, lineage divergence substantially predated the Pleistocene. (usgs.gov)
  • For all species assessed, six hotspots of high genetic divergence and diversity were concentrated in the Colorado Desert, along the Colorado River and in the Mojave/Sonoran ecotone. (usgs.gov)
  • Deep phylogenetic divergence and lack of taxonomic concordance in species of Astronotus (Cichlidae). (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary Divergence of the Novel Staphylococcal Species Staphylococcus argenteus. (cdc.gov)
  • Parasitoids are important regulators of arthropod populations, including major agricultural pests and disease vectors, and Nasonia is an emerging genetic model, particularly for evolutionary and developmental genetics. (lu.se)
  • Our results contradict previous systematic hypotheses, reveal surprising relationships between Philippine and non-Philippine lineages, and simultaneously uncover novel, cryptic evolutionary lineages (new putative species). (ku.edu)
  • Tree of life diagrams are graphic representations of phylogeny-the evolutionary history and relationships of lineages-and as such these graphics have the potential to convey key evolutionary ideas and principles to a variety of audiences. (springer.com)
  • Boldface branches indicate severe acute respiratory syndrome-like coronaviruses, and species names to the right of lineages indicate putative reservoir host(s). (cdc.gov)
  • Phylogenomics of two ST1 antibiotic-susceptible non-clinical Acinetobacter baumannii strains reveals multiple lineages and complex evolutionary history in global clone 1. (cdc.gov)
  • The process of splitting one species into two is called speciation . (livescience.com)
  • Research applying genomic methods to develop treatments or vaccines, to understand antimicrobial mechanisms of resistance, and to examine evolutionary processes were also included. (cdc.gov)
  • You will learn to analyse and understand the evolutionary processes that give rise to novelty, adaptation and diversity. (lu.se)
  • This module focuses on how scientists unravel the processes that bring about new species. (lu.se)
  • We introduce the concept of the interspecies correlation coefficient which describes how quickly the tip species lose shared ancestral signal as we proceed from a Brownian motion (no drift) to OU processes with more and more drift. (lu.se)
  • A general introduction that includes history of science, evolutionary processes, and species concepts from a plant perspective. (lu.se)
  • 7, 2022- By Andy Flick, Evolutionary Studies scientific coordinator Science is an inherently collaborative endeavor. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • 20, 2022- Andy Flick, Evolutionary Studies Initiative scientific coordinator Bacteria, not unlike humans, can take up more resources than necessary. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Perez Lozano A, Lasso-AlcalĆ” OM, Bittencourt PS, Taphorn DC, Perez N, Farias IP (2022): A new species of Astronotus (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from the Orinoco River and Gulf of Paria basins, northern South America. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wing size was associated with the genetic structure in all species, highlighting the functional importance of this trait. (frontiersin.org)
  • To date, studies of this group have relied on purportedly diagnostic differences in morphological characters, with no attention given to the genetic underpinnings of species diversity. (ku.edu)
  • We collected a 5-gene dataset to estimate phylogeny, and used multilocus genetic networks, analysis of population structure, and a Bayesian coalescent approach to infer species boundaries in this group. (ku.edu)
  • Criticism of evolutionary psychology involves questions of testability, cognitive and evolutionary assumptions (such as modular functioning of the brain, and large uncertainty about the ancestral environment), importance of non-genetic and non-adaptive explanations, as well as political and ethical issues due to interpretations of research results. (wikipedia.org)
  • By dispersing, they move away from areas of heavy predation, minimize competition with one another, and keep the species' genetic variability high. (phys.org)
  • Remarkably, two of the same genetic changes seen in stickleback SWS2 also distinguish SWS2A (red-shifted) and SWS2B (blue-shifted) of these fish species, with whom they last shared a common ancestor many million years ago. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Despite the largely overlapping distributions at a macrogeographic scale, our genetic results suggest that the two species remain reproductively isolated, as only negligible levels of gene flow were observed. (researchsquare.com)
  • Long-term preservation of species-level biodiversity would entail selecting areas for protection in Mojave and Sonoran Deserts to retain divergent genetic diversity and ensure connectedness across environmental gradients. (usgs.gov)
  • Scientists from various disciplines work closely together at the Institute: Geneticists trace the genetic make-up of extinct species, such as Neanderthals. (mpg.de)
  • Evolutionary biologists explore the origins and relationships between different organisms by examining the principles of natural selection and genetic variation. (freescience.info)
  • By analyzing past patterns of adaptation, natural selection, and genetic drift, scientists can anticipate how species might react to future changes in their environment. (freescience.info)
  • This module will focus on the genetic and developmental basis of adaptive change and evolutionary novelty. (lu.se)
  • To honor the legendary evolutionary theorist and biologist Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021), who passed away on December 26, 2021 at the age of 92, we present two tributes to him from Mark Moffett and Frank Sulloway, scientists who knew the man well and are deeply familiar with his work and his legacy. (skeptic.com)
  • In this tribute to Edward O. Wilson, Frank J. Sulloway recounts how the Harvard evolutionary biologist had a profound and enduring influence on his own life and academic career. (skeptic.com)
  • To honor the legendary evolutionary theorist and biologist Edward O. Wilson, who passed away on December 26 at the age of 92, his former student Mark Moffett, pays tribute to his mentor in this deeply moving memoir of his time working with the great scientist. (skeptic.com)
  • Two notable examples are Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker and Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , both of whom are award winning authors who recently topped Prospect magazine's list of world thinkers (World Thinkers 2013, 2013). (psychologytoday.com)
  • In a frequently heard (perhaps apocryphal) story, the evolutionary biologist, J. B. S. Haldane, when asked to comment on what could be inferred about the Creator based on the creation, is reported to have said, "He must have had an inordinate fondness of beetles" (Farrell 1998). (ucpress.edu)
  • Over the past 12,000 years or more, species of three-spined stickleback fish have colonized hundreds of freshwater lakes in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia, forming independently evolving populations. (sciencedaily.com)
  • 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)
  • several of these possibly distinct populations also have very different juvenile coloration from the two recognized species. (wikipedia.org)
  • As compared with other species, humans show extraordinary variability across populations. (mpg.de)
  • Biologists can identify vulnerable populations within species, helping prioritize resources and develop targeted strategies for protection. (freescience.info)
  • This module will explain how fitness differences cause adaptive change, maintain polymorphism, and contribute to adaptive differences between individuals, populations and species. (lu.se)
  • As the diversity of lines of evidence has increased, so too have the kinds of tools and inferential power of species delimitation methods expanded. (ku.edu)
  • The water monitors (Varanus salvator Complex), a widespread group distributed throughout Southeast Asia and southern India, have been the subjects of numerous taxonomic treatments, which recently have drawn increased attention to the possibility of undocumented species diversity in the Philippines. (ku.edu)
  • Our study contributes to a growing body of literature suggesting that integrative combinations of types of data and analyses are most informative to systematists and biodiversity specialists when attempting to estimate species diversity. (ku.edu)
  • Northern Africa holds a great biogeographical interest owing to the strong species interactions (e.g., competition for limited and ephemeral resources), the wide diversity of habitats and heterogeneous landscapes, and the complex paleoclimatic and geological history (11-14). (researchsquare.com)
  • Aiming to understand cognitive differences across species without accounting for cognitive diversity within species is incomplete at best but more likely inaccurate. (mpg.de)
  • Yet, as staggering as these numbers are, they vastly underestimate life's true diversity: all species consist of individual organisms that are themselves unique. (ucpress.edu)
  • Nancy Strockbine] Understanding the diversity that exists within a species is very important for epidemiologic investigations and evolutionary studies. (cdc.gov)
  • These evolutionary psychologists argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary psychologists hold that behaviors or traits that occur universally in all cultures are good candidates for evolutionary adaptations, including the abilities to infer others' emotions, discern kin from non-kin, identify and prefer healthier mates, and cooperate with others. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary psychology is an approach that views human nature as the product of a universal set of evolved psychological adaptations to recurring problems in the ancestral environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Just as human physiology and evolutionary physiology have worked to identify physical adaptations of the body that represent "human physiological nature," the purpose of evolutionary psychology is to identify evolved emotional and cognitive adaptations that represent "human psychological nature. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary psychology is the scientific study of human nature dedicated to discovering and understanding the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve ancestral survival and reproductive problems. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Changes in a single color-vision gene demonstrate convergent evolutionary adaptations in widely separated species and across vastly different time scales, according to a new study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Coevolution occurs when two or more species exert selective pressures on each other over time, leading to reciprocal adaptations. (freescience.info)
  • Multiple analyses of these genomic data suggest that hybridization events have occurred throughout Ficus evolutionary history. (nature.com)
  • These data validate our hypothesis that detailed evolutionary analyses help predict the consequences of missense amino-acid variants. (nih.gov)
  • Subsequently, genomic, and evolutionary analyses were carried out to detect both, genomic reassortments and single nucleotide variants (SNV). (bvsalud.org)
  • The genus Trichomycterus has about 120 species, distributed in Central and South America from Costa Rica to north Argentina, in both sides of Andes (Wosiacki & Garavello, 2004). (scielo.br)
  • Here we showcase an ideal organismal system for a data-rich, comparative approach to evaluating integrative strategies of species delimitation among charismatic monitor lizards of the genus Varanus. (ku.edu)
  • This combination of traits convinced the researchers that what they were looking at was a new genus and species. (yahoo.com)
  • There are over 30 different species in the Rhododendron genus within in the same area of the Hengduan mountains. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Williams added, "there could be variation in pleiotropy even within the genus, and that would be something really interesting to investigate-we'd love to have more expression and functional data from other species. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • But they all belong to one genus - Cucurbita - and fall broadly into only six main species or subspecies . (newscientist.com)
  • We undertook genome sequencing and annotation, gene expression assays, studies of plant cell wall degrading enzymes, and other functional and comparative studies of the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis, a globally significant invasive species capable of inflicting severe feeding damage on many important tree species. (uni-koeln.de)
  • The complex mosaic of changes in brain morphology and functional organization that have shaped the mammalian cortex during evolution, complicates attempts to chart cortical differences across species. (harvard.edu)
  • Critically, we find cross-species similarity in functional organization reflects a gradient of evolutionary change that decreases from unimodal systems and culminates with the most pronounced changes in posterior regions of the default mode network (angular gyrus, posterior cingulate and middle temporal cortices). (harvard.edu)
  • Here, we argue that trait resolution (from finestā€resolution continuous measurements to coarsestā€resolution binary categories) remains a critically overlooked methodological variable, even though categorical classification is known to mask functional variability and inflate functional redundancy among species or individuals. (nsf.gov)
  • According to Steven Pinker, it is "not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses" and a term that "has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, climate change is happening at a rate that makes evolutionary adaptation difficult. (lu.se)
  • Recent conceptual, technological, and methodological advances in phylogenetic systematics have enabled increasingly robust statistical species delimitation in empirical studies of biodiversity. (ku.edu)
  • We examined the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the species and related congeners using partial COI gene sequences (DNA barcoding). (scienceopen.com)
  • Phylogenetic comparative methods commonly assume that the evolutionary relationships between the studied species are known. (lu.se)
  • These phenotypes seem to be associated with protection against predators and thermal regulation in the respective habitats of both species, suggesting that similar selective pressures have resulted in the evolution of different trait combinations. (frontiersin.org)
  • Some of the inter-specific differences could be related to diverging niche breadths and dispersal capacities, exemplifying that the evolution of trait integration and spatial phenotypic differentiation may differ between closely related species with overlapping distribution ranges. (frontiersin.org)
  • It limits our ability to fully appreciate how evolution has shaped our brain, especially in systems associated with unique human cognitive capabilities that lack anatomical homologues in other species. (harvard.edu)
  • We review evidence for possible convergent evolution and even outright mimicry in flocks from southwestern China, where we have observed several cases in which species and subspecies differ from their closest relatives in traits that match particular flock types. (nsf.gov)
  • Additional fossils of the newfound species could help fine-tune Jormungandr walhallaensis' position on the mosasaur family tree, said Konishi, who studies mosasaur evolution and was not involved in the study. (yahoo.com)
  • Finally, disrupting the environment at intermediate frequencies can result in coexistence with cyclical population dynamics of species with different rates of evolution. (lu.se)
  • In fact, a recent study found that even a single visit to an evolution exhibit can influence children's thinking about evolutionary concepts (Diamond et al. (springer.com)
  • Alissa Williams, postdoctoral researcher, and Thi Ngo, lab alumna, equally contributed to the new paper studying the evolution of immunity in Drosophila species. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Forcing this species into an evolutionary paradigm to fit preconceived ideas about cetacean evolution, and promulgating headlines about a "four-legged whale," is beyond belief. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Turner is a consummate storyteller: her steady pace through millions of years of the human evolutionary line is buoyed by an amused stance, joke-filled footnotes, well-timed shifts into second person, and modern-day analogies attuned to a middle-grade audience. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • However, the evolutionary history of these regions in deep time is poorly understood. (nature.com)
  • These results indicate that geological events such as the Indo-Asian Collision, the TP uplift, and the aridification of the Asian interior underpinned the evolutionary history of the zoogeographical regions surrounding the TP over different time periods. (nature.com)
  • Background Climatic variation and geologic change both play significant roles in shaping species distributions, thus affecting their evolutionary history. (researchsquare.com)
  • I haven't always been a fan of squashes, but the more I have learned about their evolutionary history, the more I have been charmed by how such unlikely and unpromising fruits came to spread worldwide. (newscientist.com)
  • In doing so you will learn how to unravel the evolutionary history of biological systems. (lu.se)
  • Evolutionary biologists study the descent of species , and the origin of new species . (wikimedia.org)
  • We recommend holding in abeyance taxonomic decisions until multiple, converging lines of evidence are available to best inform taxonomists, evolutionary biologists, and conservationists. (ku.edu)
  • This module will explain and exemplify how scientists unravel evolutionary patterns - from the biogeography of species to the origin of new phyla. (lu.se)
  • These insights are invaluable for guiding conservation efforts and unraveling complex species interactions within ecosystems. (freescience.info)
  • We obtained entire nuclear, mitochondrial, and chloroplast genomes for 15 species representing all major clades of Ficus . (nature.com)
  • The roughly 20 distinct species that have been identified in the river, by their varying DNA, each emit distinct signals, which is the basis for Arnegard's new conclusion. (livescience.com)
  • Several evolutionary hotspots were recovered but are not strategically paired with areas of protected land. (usgs.gov)
  • Evolutionary psychologists apply the same thinking in psychology, arguing that just as the heart evolved to pump blood, and the liver evolved to detoxify poisons, there is modularity of mind in that different psychological mechanisms evolved to solve different adaptive problems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary psychologists frequently engage with and respond to such criticisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • While philosophers have generally considered the human mind to include broad faculties, such as reason and lust, evolutionary psychologists describe evolved psychological mechanisms as narrowly focused to deal with specific issues, such as catching cheaters or choosing mates. (wikipedia.org)
  • I. What Do Evolutionary Psychologists Study? (psychologytoday.com)
  • Most evolutionary psychologists are employed in academia as researchers and instructors. (psychologytoday.com)
  • A small but growing number of applied evolutionary psychologists are finding employment in marketing , business, law, and psychotherapy . (psychologytoday.com)
  • Of their myriad contributions, Dawkins' The Selfish Gene (1976) and The Extended Phenotype (1982) and Pinker's How The Mind Works (1997) and The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002) are "must reads" for aspiring evolutionary psychologists. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Our results thus begin to establish a genomic basis for the evolutionary success of beetles on plants. (uni-koeln.de)
  • Vaccination against swine influenza in pigs causes different drift evolutionary patterns upon swine influenza virus experimental infection and reduces the likelihood of genomic reassortments. (bvsalud.org)
  • The idea of a "tree of life" represents a core concept of evolutionary science-phylogeny-and is depicted graphically using an almost bewildering array of formats and terminology, in which even a particular geometry used can have multiple names associated with it. (springer.com)
  • How people interpret and understand evolutionary trees is a complex interaction between their prior knowledge and understanding of underlying evolutionary ideas such as similarity, ancestry, and relatedness, and their ability to read the relationships depicted in a schematic tree diagram. (springer.com)
  • Although natural selection is an evolutionary process, Darwin argued that at natural selection's core is an ecological process: competition. (ucpress.edu)
  • Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary psychology adopts an understanding of the mind that is based on the computational theory of mind. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary Psychology specifies the domain as the problems of survival and reproduction. (wikipedia.org)
  • Are you thinking about pursuing evolutionary psychology as a career ? (psychologytoday.com)
  • Evolutionary psychology is not a specific topic of psychological study. (psychologytoday.com)
  • For those unable to gain entry into a doctoral program, acquiring a master's degree in evolutionary psychology may be a good stepping stone toward access to a Ph.D. program. (psychologytoday.com)
  • For more information on applied evolutionary psychology see www.aepsociety.org . (psychologytoday.com)
  • How Do I Choose Graduate Programs to Apply to in Evolutionary Psychology? (psychologytoday.com)
  • Evolutionary psychology is a relatively small field, but the number of places to pursue graduate study for it grows every year. (psychologytoday.com)
  • V. What is your Completely Biased and Unscientific Opinion on the Top Ten Places to Study Evolutionary Psychology in North America? (psychologytoday.com)
  • As a former Longhorn, I'm of course partial to the Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin . (psychologytoday.com)
  • What are the Most Helpful Courses to Take to Prepare for Graduate Study in Evolutionary Psychology? (psychologytoday.com)
  • Evolutionary psychology is fortunate to claim many scientists heralded for their clear thinking and writing. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Close readings of the field's first textbook ( Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind ) and handbook ( The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology ) are also encouraged (Buss, 2005, 2012). (psychologytoday.com)
  • Evolutionary Psychology, 12 (3), 549-569. (bvsalud.org)
  • When the researchers analyzed the data, their evolutionary tree showed an outcome called a polytomy - "when a bunch of different species kind of blur together into a single spot" - with Jormungandr walhallaensis and Clidastes, Zietlow said. (yahoo.com)
  • The researchers logged a variety of ecological features for 34 different rhododendron species - including size and shape of leaves and flowers, when they bloomed, and where they grew. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Researchers believe that these different electrical signals are the fishes' first step in diverging into separate species. (livescience.com)
  • The fish are likely on the verge of splitting into two species, the researchers announced today. (livescience.com)
  • In some regions of the world, researchers are developing immunologic tools, such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), to aid in species identification and possibly in severity grading. (medscape.com)
  • Future discoveries may favor an alternative hypothesis that it is a new species of Clidastes. (yahoo.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)
  • The author adopts an intentionally broad approach, stepping back from the details to consider what species constitute, both theoretically and empirically, and how we detect them, drawing on a wealth of examples from microbes to multicellular organisms. (nhbs.com)
  • The next largest category (6 articles) included papers describing evolutionary selection pressures on infectious organisms, either in the natural environment or in host species. (cdc.gov)
  • and (3) whether correlations between phenotypic traits within individuals are species-specific. (frontiersin.org)
  • We found common and species-specific associations of climatic (precipitation, wind speed) and geographic (longitude, altitude) factors with the composite phenotypic variation. (frontiersin.org)
  • It has been observed that in some mixed-species animal societies, there appears to be a drive towards some degree of phenotypic trait matching, such as similar coloration or patterning. (nsf.gov)
  • 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)
  • However, in recent years the formation has also yielded many species that look very familiar to scientists who are used to studying Cambrian lifeforms. (iflscience.com)
  • Is it any wonder that people don't trust overhyped evolutionary claims made by the media, or by some scientists? (evolutionnews.org)
  • Here we refine these evolutionary studies and expand them to the p16/Ink4a gene. (nih.gov)
  • 0.05, the evolutionary substitution database must contain at least 3(M) variants, where M equals the number of codons in the gene. (nih.gov)
  • Methods: We analysed previously published gene sequence data for twelve species. (usgs.gov)
  • Soares, an expert in the brain circuitry that controls animal behavior, decided to study jumping guppies while researching unrelated evolutionary changes in the brainstems of Poecilia reticulata , a wild guppy species from the island of Trinidad and the forebear to the familiar pet shop fish. (phys.org)
  • Despite recent improvements in the collection and availability of trait data, great disparities continue to exist among taxa in the number and availability of continuous traits, which are more difficult to acquire for large numbers of species than coarse categorical assignments. (nsf.gov)
  • 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)
  • Why do species harbor so much trait variation within them, which, in some cases, is as pronounced as that normally seen between species (e.g., see Fig. 1.1c)? (ucpress.edu)
  • Single-locus DNA barcoding and species delimitation of the sandfly subgenus Evandromyia (Aldamyia). (scienceopen.com)
  • Revision of the subgenus Phortica (sensu stricto) (Diptera, Drosophilidae) from East Asia, with assessment of species delimitation using DNA barcodes. (scienceopen.com)
  • Understanding this role provides insight into how species respond to changes in their environment and how species coexistence can arise and be maintained. (lu.se)
  • An understanding of how, and in what form, tree graphics are used in informal settings is an important part of supporting the development of evolutionary thinking in museum visitors. (springer.com)
  • The formation demonstrates how important exceptionally preserved fossils are to our understanding of major evolutionary events in deep time" says first author Peter Van Roy , also of Yale. (iflscience.com)
  • The tinamous' place on the evolutionary tree offers a glimpse into the origins of flightlessness. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The evolutionary origins of these diverse systems are beginning to be more comprehensively investigated and mapped out. (lu.se)
  • Our findings highlight the importance of comparative assessments of variation, and demonstrate that the relative effects of drivers of variability may vary between sister species. (frontiersin.org)
  • Next, the authors compared their stickleback results to previously published opsin genes in two related species of fish (bluefin killifish and black bream), separated from sticklebacks by millions of years, that had also adapted to blackwater and clearwater habitats. (sciencedaily.com)
  • More broadly, these results show that there can be evolutionary constraints acting on dual function genes. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Consistent with all of this, the paper notes in the abstract that what they did find was "a partial skeleton," later stating, "The new species is based on a partial skeleton. (evolutionnews.org)
  • We looked for evolutionary parameters at each codon that would predict whether missense mutations were disease associated or disrupted function. (nih.gov)
  • It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. (urbanspecies.co.uk)
  • To put it simply, a species has three options: it can evolve to adapt, shift its range or die out. (lu.se)