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Scientists say natural selection alone can explain eusociality
Scientists at Harvard University have sketched a new map of the "evolutionary labyrinth" species must traverse to reach eusociality, the rare but spectacularly successful social structure where ...
Wed 25 Aug 10 from PhysOrg
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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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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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