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The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting
...predict its evolution seemed a fool’s errand. But lately, evolution is starting to look surprisingly predictable. Lässig believes that soon it may even be possible to make evolutionary forecasts. Scientists...
A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony
...as the long-term evolution experiment. The project, started in 1988, examines evolution in action. He and his lab members have been growing 12 populations of E. coli continuously for over...
Scientists Seek to Update Evolution
...group of biologists argue that the Modern Synthesis needs an overhaul. It has to be recast as a new vision of evolution, which they’ve dubbed the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. Other...
Evolution’s Random Paths Lead to One Place
...uses statistical methods to study basic questions in evolution. Many biologists argue that it would not, that chance mutations early in the evolutionary journey of a species will profoundly influence...
A Missing Genetic Link in Human Evolution
...unusual pattern, repeated in different parts of the genome, is found only in great apes — bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and humans. “I think it’s a missing piece of human evolution,”...
Watching Evolution Happen in Two Lifetimes
...of evolution by natural selection. Was this the first time anyone had observed evolution in real time? Peter Grant on Daphne Major in 1995. PG: In a natural environment, yes....
Evolution Runs Faster on Short Timescales
...calls the time-dependent rate phenomenon. Simon Ho, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Sydney, found that evolution takes place at varying rates. “Think of it like the stock market,”...
Evolution as Opportunist
...adaptation in the historical context of evolution. Until recently, evidence for the co-opting of traits has been limited to case studies, such as the evolution of the feather. But examples...
Debating the Evolution of Multicellularity
...Does Darwinian evolution reward cooperative behaviors? Behaviors have an effect on the evolution of species and vice versa. But let’s not forget that evolution is the result of random events...