• This is a major step forward for evolutionary biology. (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Evolutionary Developmental Biology. (pte.hu)
  • 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)
  • Can you list the top facts and stats about Evolutionary biology? (wikiwand.com)
  • Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes ( natural selection , common descent , speciation ) that produced the diversity of life on Earth . (wikiwand.com)
  • In the 1930s, the discipline of evolutionary biology emerged through what Julian Huxley called the modern synthesis of understanding, from previously unrelated fields of biological research, such as genetics and ecology , systematics , and paleontology . (wikiwand.com)
  • Moreover, the newer field of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") investigates how embryogenesis is controlled, thus yielding a wider synthesis that integrates developmental biology with the fields of study covered by the earlier evolutionary synthesis. (wikiwand.com)
  • Advances in molecular biology, including DNA sequencing and protein analysis, have provided strong evidence for evolutionary relationships among species. (easyelimu.com)
  • He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, where he is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, in the Departments of Sociology, Medicine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Statistics and Data Science, and Biomedical Engineering. (abebooks.com)
  • In a book of great wisdom and unusual breadth, Christakis pulls together philosophy, history, anthropology, sociology, genetics, and evolutionary biology to make an extraordinarily optimistic argument: evolution has pre-wired us for goodness. (abebooks.com)
  • I was talking with a friend about the Polio vaccine, when he said to me that evolutionary biology has a major problem because you cannot do experiments in it because there are too many variables. (sciforums.com)
  • How would experiments in evolutionary biology be done then? (sciforums.com)
  • he said to me that evolutionary biology has a major problem because you cannot do experiments in it because there are too many variables. (sciforums.com)
  • I suppose that will be bad news for the many thousands of evolutionary biologists around the world who spend their careers performing research into evolutionary biology. (sciforums.com)
  • 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)
  • Teaching an Old Virus New Tricks: A Review on New Approaches to Study Age-Old Questions in Influenza Biology. (cdc.gov)
  • Antoon Geels, Professor of History of Religions and Psychology of Religions, reflects in his book Laga världen med ickevåld, medkänsla och andra verktyg on an existence where people live side by side and steward our planet in an optimal manner using nine tools taken from wisdom traditions, world religions and modern research in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • The Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab (MEEL) is rooted in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. (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 provide students with detailed knowledge and understanding of the methods of evolutionary biology, and apply these to a wide range of problems. (lu.se)
  • The course will enable students to acquire extensive knowledge and understanding of the models and methods of evolutionary biology and their applications. (lu.se)
  • The question of how and why genetic variation arises and is maintained over long periods of time is of key importance to evolutionary biology, population genetics and conservation biology. (lu.se)
  • Our study clarifies when, how and why this variation arose, and shows that this variation has been maintained over long evolutionary time periods through so-called balanced natural selection", says Erik Svensson, biology professor at Lund University. (lu.se)
  • Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Denise Su of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Stephanie Melillo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, provide an up-to-date summary of hominin fossils found in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Chad during the Pliocene epoch, 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago. (iflscience.com)
  • 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 Taï 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 Taï National Park in the République de Côte 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)
  • Evolutionary algorithm is an umbrella term used to describe computer- based problem solving systems which use computational models of evolutionary processes as key elements in their design and implementation. (cmu.edu)
  • The chapters are as follows: Preface, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Information Behaviour Framework, Chapter 3: Evolutionary Foundation, Chapter 4: Instinct versus Environment, Chapter 5: Human Cognitive and Social Behaviour, Chapter 6: Lifetime Development, Chapter 7: Information Behaviour Sub‐Processes, Chapter 8: Information Behaviour Over the Ages and Chapter 9: Key Propositions and Future Directions. (emerald.com)
  • Inspired by the work of evo-devo biologists, evo-devo complexity theorists look for processes of evolutionary creativity and developmental constraint in any autopoetic complex systems, at any scale. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • This timely, authoritative compendium offers an in-depth understanding of the processes at work in evolutionary interpretation as well as a prime selection of the current trends and future challenges. (bloomsbury.com)
  • These experiments, often conducted with microorganisms, fruit flies, or plants, provide real-time evidence of evolutionary processes, such as natural selection and genetic adaptation. (easyelimu.com)
  • You will learn to analyse and understand the evolutionary processes that give rise to novelty, adaptation and diversity. (lu.se)
  • We study evolutionary processes broadly, with a main focus on the evolutionary ecology of sex determination and sex chromosomes. (lu.se)
  • We focus on two main aspects: 1) how disease ecology, life history strategies, migration and ageing processes influence ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a wild population of great reed warblers (our database contains information for 40 breeding seasons), and 2) how physiological drivers (particularly immune function and telomere dynamics) influence variation in health and fitness. (lu.se)
  • Our research thus improves our general understanding of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that underpin the eco-evolutionary processes that drive ecosystem dynamics including population sizes, traits evolution and diversification. (lu.se)
  • These new genetic results help us understand both the evolutionary processes that take place within a species, and what happens over longer evolutionary macroevolutionary time scales of tens of millions of years and across several different species", concludes Erik Svensson. (lu.se)
  • Evolutionary Ecology 29: 341-354. (sussex.ac.uk)
  • Evolutionary Ecology 26: 1187-1196. (sussex.ac.uk)
  • In our group, we are interested in evolutionary, functional and behavioural ecology questions using molecular, genetic and genomic methods. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • This module will focus on the genetic and developmental basis of adaptive change and evolutionary novelty. (lu.se)
  • The course will provide the theoretical and practical know-how for using genomic data to reconstruct evolutionary history, investigate signatures of selection, and establish the genetic and developmental mechanisms of evolutionary change. (lu.se)
  • Detailed, accurate evolutionary trees that reveal the relatedness of living things can now be determined much faster and for thousands of species with a computing method developed by computer scientists and a biologist. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Detailed, accurate evolutionary trees that reveal the relatedness of living things can now be determined much faster and for thousands of species with a computing method developed by computer scientists and a biologist at The University of Texas at Austin. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Computer scientist Tandy Warnow, biologist Randy Linder and their graduate students have created an automated computing method, called SATé, that can analyze these molecular data from thousands of organisms, simultaneously figuring out how the sequences should be organized and computing their evolutionary relatedness in as little as 24 hours. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Warnow and Linder have created a method that speeds up the process and removes any subjectivity," says Michael Braun, an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Institution not associated with this project. (sciencedaily.com)
  • 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)
  • Similarly, other evolutionary tests we've built and published (on tree-thinking and on population genetics, for instance) don't fit neatly into the categories that Nehm's group looked at. (simbio.com)
  • We combine large-scale fieldwork with genomic analyses to understand the evolutionary genetics of adaptations. (lu.se)
  • We address these questions in natural populations of great reed warblers and green tortoise beetles using quantitative and molecular genetics and genomics. (lu.se)
  • New experimental and computational techniques provide exciting opportunities to study the evolutionary history of genomes using comparative genomics. (dfg.de)
  • Insects are the most species rich class of metazoans with a huge variation in various traits making them the ideal system to investigate general principles of the evolutionary dynamics underlying major innovations based on a comparative genomics framework. (dfg.de)
  • His team conducts research on a wide range of questions and approaches in computational and evolutionary genomics. (cdc.gov)
  • I believe that everybody can make important contributions in the fight against the virus and we are delighted to lend our expertise in computational and evolutionary genomics to make these data more accessible and more powerful in the hands of users. (cdc.gov)
  • While economic analysis has traditionally advanced a market-failure model of arts and culture, this book argues for an evolutionary market dynamics or innovation-based approach. (e-elgar.com)
  • Eco-evolutionary models of spatiotemporal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities. (lu.se)
  • Understanding the historical and evolutionary dynamics of a society is crucial for this. (lu.se)
  • The tinamous' place on the evolutionary tree offers a glimpse into the origins of flightlessness. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Evolutionary Origins of sex differences in jealousy? (bvsalud.org)
  • This is important because different alignments can lead to significantly different phylogenies, and scientists must find the phylogeny that best represents the evolutionary relationships among the species in question. (sciencedaily.com)
  • 2. Evolutionary development of species i.e., the line of their development. (byjus.com)
  • 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)
  • If you ask questions about a single species gaining traits, for instance, students have a relatively high rate of correct responses and lower rates of what they call "naive" responses (i.e. misconceptions). (simbio.com)
  • On the other hand, if you ask questions about cross-species comparisons where species are losing traits, students show many more naive responses and many fewer correct responses. (simbio.com)
  • Although we spend months designing each new test already to capture the same understanding we find in interviews and essays, we don't systematically vary the elements in the questions to see what effect that has-changing species, traits, whether we ask about gains vs. losses, and on and on across many other possible features of each question. (simbio.com)
  • Homologous structures are anatomical features in different species that have a common evolutionary origin. (easyelimu.com)
  • This module will explain and exemplify how scientists unravel evolutionary patterns - from the biogeography of species to the origin of new phyla. (lu.se)
  • This has significance both for conservating species and for the future evolutionary potential of populations to adapt to rapidly changing environments. (lu.se)
  • We now have a good knowledge base for investigating the colour variation over longer evolutionary time scales among other species of this damselfly genus, which occurs in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America. (lu.se)
  • This unique book brings together leading experts from diverse areas of public international law to offer a comprehensive overview of the approaches to evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Other approaches to the evolutionary puzzle of altruism also appeared in the next half-century: the ability to expect and receive reciprocal altruism, the benefits to an individual's reputation, cooperation in games where the cumulative payoff beats defection, and other models. (prospect.org)
  • This innovative book suggests taking seriously some of the findings of evolutionary economics and paying specifi. (e-elgar.com)
  • 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)
  • Evolutionary psychology adopts an understanding of the mind that is based on the computational theory of mind. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wilson believes that to answer this question, we must turn to evolutionary theory, and especially to a theory known as group selection, which holds that better adapted groups produce more offspring, with the result that their traits are passed on. (prospect.org)
  • Evolutionary theory, which proposes that all living organisms share a common ancestry and have changed over time, is supported by a wide range of evidence from various scientific disciplines. (easyelimu.com)
  • However, this 25-year study of the selection, inheritance, and evolution in the mute swan population of Abbotsbury, England, yielded data on clutch size consistent with the direction predicted by evolutionary theory. (eurekalert.org)
  • In relation to this, we question that the authors did not describe the results of our planning study on ravens correctly, as this is of consequence to their theory. (lu.se)
  • Microbial evolutionary medicine: from theory to clinical practice. (cdc.gov)
  • It will also explain how comparative phylogenetic methods are used to infer the sequence of evolutionary events and test hypotheses from evolutionary theory. (lu.se)
  • The final part of the course provides an opportunity to investigate how evolutionary theory can be used to meet outstanding challenges in society, including in medicine, conservation, biotechnology, and sustainable development. (lu.se)
  • Since Charles Darwin, biologists have constructed evolutionary trees to explain the relatedness of plants, animals and other organisms. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Explain the importance of fossils in deciding evolutionary relationships. (byjus.com)
  • I want to motivate why this is a reasonable approach and therefore explain how an evolutionary algorithm works. (stackexchange.com)
  • MEEL is a collaborative research environment consisting of seven independent PI's who use molecular techniques to investigate evolutionary and ecological problems. (lu.se)
  • We work on ecological and evolutionary questions related to host-parasite interaction. (lu.se)
  • SATé could completely change the practice of making evolutionary trees and revolutionize our understanding of evolution," says Warnow, professor of computer science and lead author of the study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In a nutshell, Nehm's research says that the stories you use in questions about evolution have a lot to do with the responses you get. (simbio.com)
  • Dr. Gao has a long-standing interest in elucidating the origin, evolution and genetic variation of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV/SIV) as well as in studying gene function, pathogenesis and vaccines of HIV/SIV from an evolutionary perspective. (hstalks.com)
  • Article 6 TEU requires the EU, an institution which has been in a constant state of evolution for over six decades, to accede to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("ECHR"), a creature of the Council of Europe ("CoE") which, along with its legal system, has traveled its own evolutionary path over the same period. (lu.se)
  • We use computational tools to ask big multi-disciplinary questions concerning identity, genotype-phenotype relationships, and evolution. (lu.se)
  • In our group, we ask questions on how natural and sexual selection shapes phenotypes in wild populations, why some populations are more evolvable than others and how the genetic architecture of traits constrain or facilitate evolution. (lu.se)
  • Today we honour this legacy by actively pursuing questions at the cutting edge of astronomical research, namely the formation and evolution of galaxies, stars and exoplanets. (lu.se)
  • Group selection departs from the more familiar model of individual selection that sees the evolutionary prize going to the individual, male or female, who has more surviving offspring, regardless of health and life-span, much less altruism. (prospect.org)
  • Smashing Anthropology into Evolutionary Psychology and Paleo Logic for Peak Human Animality. (evolvify.com)
  • In drawing together a theoretical framework for information behaviour that reflects a wide spectrum of evolutionary and behavioural fields Professor Spink anticipates that we have a good basis upon which to draw together a more complete idea of information behaviour across human lifetimes. (emerald.com)
  • The book offers a theoretical framework with which Professor Spink maps out literatures, ideas, and questions. (emerald.com)
  • Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. (wikipedia.org)
  • Applicants will need to make a statement (cover letter) how they are planning to contribute to the training of early career scientists in comparative and evolutionary genome analyses (and other OMICs). (dfg.de)
  • Quantitative and content analyses of open-ended survey questions were performed. (bvsalud.org)
  • The first is an historical introduction to the origin of evolutionary ethics, showing how different evolutionary ethics was a hundred years ago, and how distant Huxley is from most of us now. (sunypress.edu)
  • The evolutionary origin of SARS-CoV-2 [Audio file]. (hstalks.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • There are very good practice questions at the end of each chapter of the textbook. (uconn.edu)
  • Participants then responded to a variety of questions about the behavior, rated the extent to which the behavior was performed of the actor's own free will, and reported their broad beliefs in human free will. (databasefootball.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It is a real challenge to information science: to survive and prosper long term researchers must develop cross‐disciplinary connections and engage fully with the methods and perspectives that shape the cognitive, evolutionary, social, and behavioural sciences. (emerald.com)
  • 3) Why do we focus on genetic differences in studying evolutionary change? (uconn.edu)
  • 7) What's the difference between evolutionary change and phenotypic plasticity? (uconn.edu)
  • 2) In class, we focused on figuring out how to tell if a phenotypic difference was caused by an evolutionary change. (uconn.edu)
  • What if there's no phenotypic difference between two populations you observe in the wild--could there still have been an evolutionary change? (uconn.edu)
  • 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 specifies the domain as the problems of survival and reproduction. (wikipedia.org)
  • It begins by asking what interpretation is, offering the views of expert authors on the question, its components and definitions. (bloomsbury.com)
  • It then comments on situations that have called for evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes, including general international law, environmental law, human rights law, EU law, investment law, international trade law, and how domestic courts have, on occasions, interpreted treaties and other international legal instruments in an evolutionary manner. (bloomsbury.com)
  • 25. Investment Treaty Signatories' Joint Interpretation and the Case of the NAFTA Free Trade Commission: Evolutionary Interpretation or Modification? (marcialpons.es)
  • The second section argues for a sociobiological interpretation of evolutionary ethics. (sunypress.edu)
  • Question 8Explain the importance of fossils in deciding evolutionary relationships. (byjus.com)
  • We have designed and analysed an eco-evolutionary and functional-trait-based model of three interacting trophic levels and we have simulated adaptation and diversification in traits as a response to eco-evolutionary feedbacks. (lu.se)
  • In March 2021, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) established the Priority Programme "Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (GEvol)" (SPP 2349). (dfg.de)
  • 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)
  • On the research side of SimBio, we spend a lot of time writing questions for testing whether students are learning from our labs. (simbio.com)
  • So even though research is supposed to be an objective, emotionless search for the truth, I'll admit to a sinking feeling while reading a paper by Ross Nehm and Minsu Ha on how students respond differently to evolutionary questions if you ask them in different contexts. (simbio.com)
  • In the most computationally intensive phylogenetic analysis to date, an international research team led by Brown University has found the first evolutionary branching for bilateral animals. (brown.edu)
  • Our current research aims at exploring the constituents of the Milky Way, from an evolutionary, chemical, and dynamical point of view, and embedding our understanding of them in a cosmological context. (lu.se)
  • We hope that this research will lead to a new understanding of skeletal muscle function with implications primarily for human health, but also provide answers to fundamental evolutionary questions. (lu.se)
  • Exam material is NOT limited to the topics in study questions and will not follow this format. (uconn.edu)
  • Professor Spink raises some questions: "Where does our information behaviour ability come from and how does it develop within us as an instinctive socio‐cognitive ability? (emerald.com)
  • The book sets out to answer these questions, and perhaps more fundamentally, begin to raise them as questions to which we currently have no real understanding. (emerald.com)
  • In the article, they raise the question of whether understanding the historical roots of economic development means that policy cannot be effective today. (lu.se)
  • The great colour variation in insects fascinates the general public, and raises questions about the function of colour signals and its evolutionary consequences for partner choice and conflicts between the sexes", says Erik Svensson. (lu.se)
  • PhD: Evolutionary models for describing regulatory diversity. (lu.se)
  • Describe how you would use a reciprocal translocation experiment to test the hypothesis that the difference in weight of squirrels on campus and on Hosebarn Hill is the result of an evolutionary change. (uconn.edu)
  • The dark side of sexual propagation in evolutionary theories was really tough to read and write about. (ivpress.com)
  • The preface sets forward the challenge of raising new questions, drawing together multiple disciplines that might contribute to the study of information behaviour, and embraces the challenge of bringing Information Science into the wider body of sciences and social sciences. (emerald.com)
  • In doing so you will learn how to unravel the evolutionary history of biological systems. (lu.se)
  • The list is my subjective (yet absolutely definitive and authoritative) list of areas of inquiry in the evolutionary health. (evolvify.com)
  • This volume analyzes the biological and philosophical disagreements in evolutionary ethics and points out difficulties with the interpretations. (sunypress.edu)
  • While virtually all of the evolutionary story lacks empirical support, its greatest impediment is the fundamental problem of how life first arose. (icr.org)
  • Our astronomers study the full Milky Way panorama to reach a holistic picture of the Galaxy and actively pursue fundamental questions within astrophysics and astrometry, simulations, and observations. (lu.se)
  • I am not really sure if this the right section for this question - it might belong to computer science. (stackexchange.com)
  • Does Evolutionary Science Disprove the Faith? (ncregister.com)
  • As to the second question regarding the Fall and original sin, this is something I cannot but wonder how one could imagine science has a word to say about it. (ncregister.com)
  • Can the ideas of Scripture and evolutionary science be mutually illuminating? (ivpress.com)
  • Once I grasped that, I was dissatisfied with all the attempts to reconcile evolutionary science and Scripture by making apples-to-oranges comparisons, a mentality that writes off the Bible as being disjointed from the topics of science. (ivpress.com)
  • The following study questions are designed to help you think about the lecture material. (uconn.edu)
  • In an important new study forthcoming from The American Naturalist, biologists from the University of Oxford tracked a colony of mute swans for more than two decades to explore a longstanding evolutionary question: whether the number of eggs laid by a female bird - known as "clutch size" - changes in accordance with natural selection. (eurekalert.org)
  • Evolutionary response to selection on clutch size in a long-term study of the mute swan," The American Naturalist 167:2. (eurekalert.org)