• Although biofluid mechanics, ecology, and evolutionary biology are major subjects of mathematical biology, they have been developed separately for decades. (google.com)
  • Key interests include (1) the evolutionary ecology and population genetics of range expansions, (2) incorporating greater realism into the dispersal process within spatial population models, (3) evolvability (including the causes and consequences of mutation rate) and (4) the evolutionary ecology of longevity. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • We conclude the chapter with a discussion of how character displacement serves to unify evolutionary biology and ecology. (ucpress.edu)
  • This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. (princeton.edu)
  • Problems in evolutionary ecology. (princeton.edu)
  • Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology covers major advances and breakthroughs in evolutionary ecology, from its beginning stages, to present-day. (tenlong.com.tw)
  • Following an easily-accessible structure, it encapsulates and chronicles the history behind evolutionary ecology since the 1970s. (tenlong.com.tw)
  • Written by a world-renowned evolutionary ecologist, this book embodies a unique blend of expertise in combining theory and experiment, population genetics and ecology, and the integration of age-structure and density-dependent selection into an understanding of life-history evolution. (tenlong.com.tw)
  • While the book presents a wonderful springboard for discussions in undergraduate or graduate seminars in evolutionary biology and ecology, it will also appeal to researchers and professionals looking for insights into the field's history. (tenlong.com.tw)
  • First and foremost, I adore all things that include ecology and evolution, such as butterfly wing color patterns that can tell an ecological story. (ucc.ie)
  • I also consider art and science to be good matches, so I developed a game board for teaching ecology and evolution at a secondary school where the butterflies' wing color patterns were the traits under selection. (ucc.ie)
  • This can have a profound effect on mating patterns, genetic diversity, and ecology, with important implications for conservation and the evolutionary process. (uoguelph.ca)
  • Given their shared evolutionary history with humans, nonhuman primates play an exceptional role in the study of animal behavior, ecology, and evolution. (springer.com)
  • I am a researcher at Lund University with broad interests in ecology and evolutionary biology, including the fundamental processes of ecology, evolution and biogeographical processes that underpin community and ecosystem structure and dynamics. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • However, empirical studies that focus on the potential for interaction between animal pollination and hybridization to affect and contribute to evolutionary diversification are rare. (nature.com)
  • The genetic basis of the evolutionary diversification of honey bees remains largely unknown. (nih.gov)
  • 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)
  • The course is structured around four key problem agendas in evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • Spatial processes such as dispersal, gene flow and geographical range changes can produce patterns of trait evolution that do not fit the expectations of standard models, even when evolution at the local‐population level is governed by drift or a typical OU model of selection. (palass.org)
  • Thesis title: Dispersal, the key process to modulate ecological and evolutionary dynamics of butterflies. (ucc.ie)
  • We focus on the phylogenetic distance between communities (phylobetadiversity) as it contains signals from both ecological and evolutionary processes and we construct spatially explicit eco-evolutionary community models that generate phylobetadiversity patterns, given different degrees of ecological interactions, dispersal propensity of the organism and properties of the environmental gradient. (lu.se)
  • We adopt a modeling framework for spatiotemporal predator-pest dynamics that in addition to landscape structure, explicitly includes eco-evolutionary dynamics and adaptation in functional traits (e.g. body size, feeding specialization and dispersal). (lu.se)
  • The basic properties of population level processes (variation, drift, selection and population size) are reviewed and the relationship between their spatial and temporal dynamics is discussed. (palass.org)
  • Typical evolutionary models used in palaeontology incorporate the temporal component of these dynamics, but not the spatial. (palass.org)
  • The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for fluid dynamists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists to talk closely with each other and to work together in the language of mathematics for deepening our understanding of complex biological dynamics. (google.com)
  • Much of my research uses models to study the population and evolutionary dynamics of spatially structured populations. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • Microbiomes [can have] a huge effect on host fitness, and hence could have a huge effect on adaptive trajectories of populations," says Rudman, who helped construct part of the site in 2017 while a postdoc in evolutionary ecologist Paul Schmidt's lab at UPenn. (the-scientist.com)
  • By analysing such models we hope to formulate theory that facilitates our understanding of the generation and maintenance of biodiversity patterns. (lu.se)
  • Although evolutionary processes underpin extant patterns of biodiversity, it is uncommon for resource managers to explicitly consider genetic data in conservation prioritization. (ingentaconnect.com)
  • He has published more than 160 scientific articles, books, and reviews, including Reinventing Darwin , an examination of current controversies in evolutionary biology , and Dominion , a consideration of the ecological and evolutionary past, present, and future of Homo sapiens . (wikipedia.org)
  • Although natural selection is an evolutionary process, Darwin argued that at natural selection's core is an ecological process: competition. (ucpress.edu)
  • Copying errors and genomic viruses directly lead to the wing patterns of these beautiful butterflies," Gallant said. (scienceblog.com)
  • Our projects include developing tests to detect patterns of ancient selection, creating methods to integrate functional and population genomic data, and inferring demographic parameters using present-day and archaic human genomes. (google.com)
  • Multiple analyses of these genomic data suggest that hybridization events have occurred throughout Ficus evolutionary history. (nature.com)
  • Statistical model fitting is now commonly used to estimate which kind of evolutionary process best explains patterns of change through time using models like Brownian motion, stabilizing selection (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck) and directional selection on traits measured from stratigraphic sequences or on phylogenetic trees. (palass.org)
  • Range expansions and contractions introduce rate variability into drift processes, range expansion under a drift model can drive directional change in trait evolution, and spatial selection gradients can create spatial variation in traits that can produce long‐term directional trends and punctuation events depending on the balance between selection strength, gene flow, extirpation probability and model of speciation. (palass.org)
  • Jason Gallant, MSU zoologist and the paper's first author, focused on butterflies to illustrate his metaphorical roadmap on evolutionary traits. (scienceblog.com)
  • We addressed this question by identifying the specific genetic changes responsible for the repeated evolution of similar color pattern traits in two butterfly lineages that last shared a common ancestor some 65 million years ago," he said. (scienceblog.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)
  • Evolutionary biologist Seth Rudman says that it would make sense if they did. (the-scientist.com)
  • Evolutionary biologist Seth Rudman prepares to release populations of Drosophila melanogaster into specially constructed mesh cages for an evolution experiment. (the-scientist.com)
  • The study is "probably the cleanest demonstration of a host adaptive response to the microbiome" so far, says Andrew Moeller, an evolutionary biologist at Cornell University who is working on similar questions in mammals and was not involved in the Penn team's research. (the-scientist.com)
  • You will learn to analyse and understand the evolutionary processes that give rise to novelty, adaptation and diversity. (lu.se)
  • This module will focus on the genetic and developmental basis of adaptive change and evolutionary novelty. (lu.se)
  • Spatial variation interacts with evolutionary processes in ways that produce patterns of trait change that differ markedly from the expectations of standard statistical evolutionary models like Brownian motion, directional selection and adaptive peak (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck) models. (palass.org)
  • For instance, we might expect evolutionary change in adaptive radiations to be driven by the availability of ecological niches. (nih.gov)
  • Work includes development of evolutionary approach to understanding the spatial organization of plant canopies and the adaptive significance of leaf aging. (amacad.org)
  • Since this evolutionary trait was triggered, perhaps somewhat accidentally, it stirs questions as to what other changes are taking place before our eyes. (scienceblog.com)
  • By exploring such models, I hope to formulate theory that facilitates our understanding of the generation and maintenance of species richness, functional trait diversity, and phylogenetic patterns. (lu.se)
  • More specifically, we aim to answer calls for an eco-evolutionary trait-based perspective on ecosystem services. (lu.se)
  • Evolution is a fundamentally population level process in which variation, drift and selection produce both temporal and spatial patterns of change. (palass.org)
  • Evolution is not only a temporal process, but a spatial one. (palass.org)
  • Within this context, a major unanswered question is whether or not evolution is predictable, and, if so, over what evolutionary time scales? (scienceblog.com)
  • We are interested in using population and quantitative genetics to understand past evolutionary processes, with a particular focus on human evolution and ancient DNA. (google.com)
  • Eldredge is proponent of the importance of environment in explaining the patterns in evolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researchers have reported a pattern of evolution in the teeth of the Sagebrush Vole, over the last approximately 1 million years, from three locations in North America. (burkemuseum.org)
  • My doctoral dissertation research is focused on studying the process by which evolution occurs. (burkemuseum.org)
  • To understand evolutionary process, we must carefully investigate patterns of evolution and understand their contexts. (burkemuseum.org)
  • As I emphasize in my recent book "The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, and Other Cautionary Tales From Human Evolution," the way in which we view the process by which we became the very unusual creatures we human beings are deeply affects both our view of ourselves, and our ideas about what we can become. (salon.com)
  • Human evolution has most emphatically not been a simple process of gradual fine-tuning by nature. (salon.com)
  • But a steady stream of newly found hominid species - the most recent of them, Australopithecus deyiremeda, was announced only this last May - has emphasized that, in sharp contrast to what we had believed, human evolution was vigorous process of evolutionary experimentation. (salon.com)
  • Such evolution has been shown to produce patterns of change that are different from those modelled by the Brownian process. (nih.gov)
  • Eldredge went on to develop a hierarchical vision of evolutionary and ecological systems, and in his book The Pattern of Evolution (1999) he has developed a comprehensive theory (the 'sloshing bucket') that specifies in detail how environmental change governs the evolutionary process. (amnh.org)
  • An amateur jazz trumpeter and avid collector of 19th century cornets, Eldredge has turned his evolutionary approach to cornet history--and to the comparison of patterns and processes of material cultural and biological evolution. (amnh.org)
  • A critic of gene-centered theories of evolution, Eldredge's Why We Do It (2004) presents an alternative account to the gene-based notions of 'evolutionary psychology' to explain why human beings behave as they do. (amnh.org)
  • But spatial variation is more than just simple population variation, it is a gradient of differences between local populations or demes that arises from metapopulation population processes related to distance, barriers, gene flow, drift and selection. (palass.org)
  • For my Ph.D., I shifted my focus to the genetic and evolutionary aspects of small populations in a project on genetic drift and mating system variation in a South American aquatic plant. (uoguelph.ca)
  • Using computational modelling that spatial processes can create evolutionary outcomes that depart from basic population‐level notions from these standard macroevolutionary models. (palass.org)
  • In this paper, I critically review the ways in which spatial processes cause departures from these standard evolutionary models. (palass.org)
  • however, the signatures of spatial processes can be recognized in some cases. (palass.org)
  • This desynchronization is also understood as circadian misalignment, a behavioral pattern in which sleep and activity occur during conflicting circadian phases (eg, sleeping during the day, eating and activity during the night). (cdc.gov)
  • In doing so you will learn how to unravel the evolutionary history of biological systems. (lu.se)
  • Throughout his career, he has used repeated patterns in the history of life to refine ideas on how the evolutionary process actually works. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this opening chapter, we summarize the history of the discovery of character displacement and describe how the process of character displacement is often conflated with the patterns that are predicted to arise from it. (ucpress.edu)
  • Biogeographically, although a southern origin for the lineage is likely, time estimates for major lineage splitting do not correspond to Gondwanan vicariance events, and the biogeographic history of the crown clade is better explained by Laurasian climatic and geological processes. (bioone.org)
  • In one case, the patterns revealed do not accord with Brownian motion but show characteristics expected under certain niche-filling models. (nih.gov)
  • This observation is consistent with the stress-dominance hypothesis if we assume ecological niches to be conserved within evolutionary niches. (scielo.br)
  • This module will explain and exemplify how scientists unravel evolutionary patterns - from the biogeography of species to the origin of new phyla. (lu.se)
  • O'Keefe, F. R. and P. M. Sander (1999) Paleontological paradigms and inferences of phylogenetic pattern: a case study. (berkeley.edu)
  • Positive selection patterns across Apis reveal a trade-off between maintaining genome stability and generating genetic diversity, with a rapidly evolving piRNA pathway leading to genomes depleted of transposable elements, and a rapidly evolving DNA repair pathway associated with high recombination rates in all Apis species. (nih.gov)
  • ROSSATO DO, KAMINSKI LA, ISERHARD CA, DUARTE LS (2018) More Than Colours: An Eco-Evolutionary Framework for Wing Shape Diversity in Butterflies. (ucc.ie)
  • We use an integrative approach including theoretical, methodological and applied subparts that enable: i) a better understanding of observed diversity gradients, ii) inference of assembly processes from community data and iii) prediction of biodiversity to novel conditions. (lu.se)
  • Eldredge went on to develop a hierarchical vision of evolutionary and ecological systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • The course will enable students to acquire extensive knowledge and understanding of fundamental topics in evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • We review the fundamental relationships between the circadian timing system and biologic processes, considering how common practices, such as shift work and variations in sleep timing on work /school versus work /school-free days (ie, social jetlag), disrupt circadian alignment and predispose individuals to cardiovascular, metabolic, and pulmonary disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Nominations are made once a year (deadline 1 December) followed by a selection process by the BECC board. (lu.se)
  • While some butterflies are poisonous and notify their predators via colorful wing markings, others are nontoxic but have evolved similar color patterns to avoid being eaten. (scienceblog.com)
  • When I look over a field of butterflies, it makes me wonder what types of 'mistakes' are happening right now that may lead to important evolutionary changes years from now? (scienceblog.com)
  • Thesis title: Coevolution of heliconian butterfly wing color pattern revisited: lack of advertence in Heliconius erato toward other comimics. (ucc.ie)
  • Punctuated equilibrium is a refinement to evolutionary theory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Also, this article offers an evolutionary interpretation of Rachlin's teleology, drawing upon the so called etiological analysis of the notion of function. (bvsalud.org)
  • His most recent venture is the development of an alternative account to the gene-based notions of evolutionary psychology to explain human behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • Our results highlight that omitting genetic information from conservation decisions may fail to adequately represent processes regulating biodiversity, but that conservation objectives related to the choice of genetic system characteristics require careful consideration. (ingentaconnect.com)
  • This module focuses on how scientists unravel the processes that bring about new species. (lu.se)
  • This species is separated by a mountain range rather than a continent, but the genetic patterns were the same. (scienceblog.com)
  • In this view, our species is simply the one that survived this vigorous process of natural experimentation and triage. (salon.com)
  • A mere 40,000 years ago we shared the planet with at least four other hominid species, and our ability to eliminate the competition in what was an evolutionary eye-blink tells us that we are very unusual creatures indeed. (salon.com)
  • Although few organisms are as practical to study as fast-growing Drosophila , research on other species in the past decade or so has produced multiple reports of common phylogenetic patterns in animals and their microbial residents-a phenomenon known as phylosymbiosis-and scientists have documented various correlations between microbiome composition and host phenotypes. (the-scientist.com)
  • Yet, we have little understanding of evolutionary and ecological processes that structure these communities, especially for salamanders and closely related species. (usgs.gov)
  • Develops diverse approaches to quantifying large-scale ecosystem processes using satellites, atmospheric data, models, and census data. (amacad.org)
  • Thesis title: Characterization and evolutionary analysis of the BuT2 element in the genus Drosophila . (ucc.ie)
  • These foods are made using fermentation processes that break down much of the lactose in milk. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The foregoing statements correct those creationists who want to 'import' conventional magnetostratigraphy directly into creationist models-treating it as something independent from the evolutionary-uniformitarian system of dating. (creation.com)
  • Most of my research is theoretical in nature and I use eco-evolutionary simulation models to study how assembly processes across spatiotemporal scales affect community patterns. (lu.se)
  • Why are there so many and diverse insects while other groups appear locked in evolutionary stasis? (lu.se)
  • It describes patterns of descent taking place in "fits and starts" separated by long periods of stability. (wikipedia.org)
  • Health status, emotional well-being, and social cohesion are influenced by the physical, social, and cultural dimensions of the individual's or community's environment and personal attributes (e.g., behavior patterns, psychology, genetics). (cdc.gov)
  • together, in the darwinism and evolutionary of RAD, Again that is simply an understanding for appearance attunement and here than assistance that teachers are human family on. (lightseed.com)
  • The course will also provide a deep understanding of the evolutionary process. (lu.se)
  • Understanding the host-pathogen evolutionary balance through Gaussian process modeling of SARS-CoV-2. (cdc.gov)
  • We are looking for a student with bioinformatic skills, who also have good understanding and interest in evolutionary processes. (lu.se)
  • Moreover, I have been involved in research, focusing to understand the biotic and abiotic impacts acting upon wing color patterns at mimicry rings. (ucc.ie)
  • From an evolutionary perspective, sleep places humans in a state of vulnerability, and yet this behavior is shared universally by mammals. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite broad scientific interest in the microbiome, few researchers had tackled these kinds of evolutionary questions experimentally. (the-scientist.com)
  • The researchers also found that the humour-then-laughter pattern was often followed by more humour, more laughter, and so on throughout the meeting. (employment-studies.co.uk)
  • An occasional instance of premature ejaculation might not be cause for concern, but, if the problem occurs with more than 50% of attempted sexual relations, a dysfunctional pattern usually exists for which treatment may be appropriate. (medscape.com)
  • When asked to comment on the significance of the work, Mullen stated the main goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. (scienceblog.com)
  • Moreover, I will discuss how these movement patterns affect macro-level phenomena such as ecosystems to understand biological Lévy walks comprehensively. (google.com)
  • Evolutionists struggle to explain it, while creationists understand it as the natural consequence of all forms of life being specially created, and not connected by evolutionary ancestry. (creation.com)