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  • Gene flow drives periods of both evolutionary stasis and change in a wild bird population
  • Evolutionary home advantage: Field experiment reveals adaptation to be surprisingly local
  • Testing the Creativity of Randomness

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Gene flow drives periods of both evolutionary stasis and change in a wild bird population

by Simon Robin Evans, Henri Bouwmeester, Arie J. van Noordwijk, Marcel E. Visser, Erik Postma The struggle to explain the absence of evolutionary change in heritable, fitness-rela...

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phys.org /1 month ago

Evolutionary home advantage: Field experiment reveals adaptation to be surprisingly local

A research team from the University of Bern has shown in a large-scale field experiment that populations of the same fish species can be much more fine-tuned to their local environ...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Testing the Creativity of Randomness

The evolutionary part of this paper relies on wishful thinking. What “could” or “might” happen occurs only in their evolutionary imaginations. Source

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phys.org /1 day ago

Surveying the genetic battlefield to uncover the rules of rapid evolution

The Malik Lab thrives on competition. But for HHMI investigator Harmit Malik and his team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, it's the genomes—not the people—that are in conflict...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Evolution of New Genes: The Big “If”

If the theory can explain the evolution of new genes then evolution can be a successful explanation. Source

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Sequence-free landscape inference for directed evolution

by Sebastian Towers, Jessica James, Harrison Steel, Idris Kempf Directed evolution is a method for engineering biological systems or components, such as proteins, wherein desired...

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Late Night Fun with Evolution and Oppenheimer

Bats by the millions would be falling from the roofs of caves if that ankle-locking design, an all-or-nothing proposition, had not come about all at once Source

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phys.org /1 month ago

When biology inspires mathematics: Hidden symmetries explain why widely used evolutionary methods can give false answers

Why do some groups of organisms contain thousands of species while others have only a handful? Evolutionary biologists have spent decades trying to answer this question using mathe...

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Simple birth-death-mutation models predict some—but not all—aspects of the experimental evolution of antibiotic resistan...

by Elin Lilja, Rosalind J. Allen, Bartlomiej Waclaw Mathematical modelling of antibiotic resistance plays an important role in understanding the mechanisms of resistance emergence...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Orchids, Moths, and (Supposed) Evolutionary Predictions

What Adami has actually done is taken a prediction that has nothing to do with evolution and attribute it to evolutionary theory. Source

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phys.org /3 weeks ago

Whole genome duplication shaped the evolution of the salmon family

Evolution is driven by changes in DNA that sometimes promote adaptation, altering traits like disease resistance or reproduction. Often, these changes are minuscule, modifying a si...

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journals.plos.org /3 weeks ago

Mixed updating in structured populations

by David A. Brewster, Yichen Huang, Michael Mitzenmacher, Martin A. Nowak Evolutionary graph theory (EGT) studies the effect of population structure on evolutionary dynamics. The...

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journals.plos.org /2 days ago

The evolutionary accessibility of cultural fitness landscapes

by Laurel Fogarty, Rebecca B. Hoyle Many human cultural and technological traits have a complex and peculiar structure. They are often characterized by multiple closely interactin...

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phys.org /1 month ago

Evolution favors flatter paths when fitness outcomes are equal, study finds

A surprising discovery by Technion researchers sheds new light on the dynamics of evolution. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study shows that...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake

But then the complexity is not interesting. Crucially, it’s not really information. Source

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goodmenproject.com /3 weeks ago

The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab

Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life’s origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close? The post The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab appeared...

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legaltechmonitor.com /3 weeks ago

Beyond the Wet Lab Bottleneck: The Race to Build Biology’s Generative Engine

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Nature has spent roughly 3.8 billion years conducting the most sprawling, creative research and development campaign in history. Evol...

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journals.plos.org /3 days ago

The role of gene regulatory evolution in weapon diversification: Insights from comparative genomics, chromatin profiling...

by Phillip L. Davidson, Isabel G. Manley, Armin P. Moczek Condition-responsive growth is a common feature of multicellular development, during which organisms integrate genetic an...

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phys.org /1 month ago

Parental care can influence evolution, beetle experiments show

How has offspring dependence on parents evolved over the course of evolution? Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, in collaboration with Kyoto University, Japan, have investi...

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Source

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scitechdaily.com /1 month ago

Scientists Bred “Super-Athlete” Mice for 30 Years – What Happened Was Unexpected

A study involving 100 pairs of mice produced unexpected results that surprised researchers. Mice bred to be unusually athletic might be expected to pay a biological price, perhaps...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Evolutionary Origin of Information: The Problem of Robustness

It is surprising to me that the authors of these studies did not consider it more of a priority to understand the mechanics of robustness. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 week ago

Tonight on NOVA: From “These Tiny Little Mistakes” — Evolution!

“Life continues to create itself,” “evolution is entirely built on these tiny little mistakes.” Source

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dzone.com /1 month ago

Anthropic Builds Biology Lab to Test What Claude Can Do in the Real World

Anthropic has spent years warning about the risks of increasingly capable AI. Now it is testing what those systems can do inside a real biology lab. The Claude maker has establishe...

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