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Furor Erupts Over the Role of Self-Sacrifice in Evolution
A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson's latest attack on a concept used to explain the origins of self-sacrifice in the dog-eat-dog world of evolution. The ...
Wed 1 Sep 10 from Wired Science
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Evolution's gears don't reverse easily
Thu 12 May 11 from Discover Magazine
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Evolution drives many plants and animals to be bigger, faster
For the vast majority of plants and animals, the 'bigger is better' view of evolution may not be far off the mark, says a new broad-scale study of natural selection. Organisms with bigger bodies ...
Mon 7 Mar 11 from PhysOrg
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At the Edge of Invasion, Possible New Rules for Evolution
Just as Galapagos finches are icons of evolution by natural selection, Australia’s cane toads may someday be icons of “spatial sorting” — a dynamic that seems to exist ...
Thu 24 Mar 11 from Wired Science
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A new appreciation of the ecology-evolution dynamic
Ecology drives evolution. In today's issue of the journal Science, UC Davis expert Thomas Schoener describes growing evidence that the reverse is also true, and explores what that might mean ...
Fri 28 Jan 11 from PhysOrg
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Method for computing evolutionary trees could revolutionize evolutionary biology
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 ...
Thu 18 Jun 09 from PhysOrg
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Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes: Is speciation adaptive?
Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the ...
Thu 26 Nov 09 from PhysOrg
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The Driver of Human Evolution Isn't the Climate Around You, It's the Worms Inside You
One of the strangest aspects of our understanding of evolutionary biology ...
Fri 2 Dec 11 from Discover Magazine
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A thousand little adaptive platoons
Last week I took an intellectual road trip back nearly a century and ...
Mon 23 Aug 10 from Discover Magazine
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George Williams has died: Reflections and an interview
The evolutionary biologist George Williams died on Wednesday at the age of ...
Fri 10 Sep 10 from Discover Magazine
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