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A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life
...Other collective organisms such as slime molds must contend with evolutionary pressures both on the whole and on individuals. And in still larger systems like the African savanna, evolution shapes...
Cell by Cell, Scientists Map the Genetic Steps as Eggs Become Animals
...their expression programs over the course of evolution. The conservation of the proteins at the sequence level seems to have no connection to the conservation of their expression in evolution....
Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isn’t Genetically Complex
Jellyfish didn’t need novel genes to take an evolutionary leap in complexity. An overarching theme in the story of evolution, at least over the past half billion years or so,...
Giant Genetic Map Shows Life’s Hidden Links
...evolution. As beautiful as the bird’s-eye view of the cell is, this work goes beyond biological voyeurism. This information can tell us about the evolution of the cell and, potentially,...
Scientists Unveil New Inventory of Universe’s Dark Contents
...of evolution, are more complex and harder to glean information from than the cosmic microwave background, but according to experts, they will ultimately offer a richer picture of the universe’s...
Solution: ‘The DNA Computer Program’
...understand. Processes like evolutionary algorithms and artificial life have taught us that programs designed by evolution are extremely complicated and sometimes seem to defy logic, but they work. The decompilation...
Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses
...for evolution to play with. Evolution, Shepherd says, is the ultimate MacGyver, referring to the 1980s TV hero who could defuse a bomb with bubble gum and a paper clip....
Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
...evolution indefinitely far into the future. The dictum holds true whether you’re using Newton’s laws to predict the future position of a billiard ball, Maxwell’s equations to describe an electromagnetic...
The Math That Tells Cells What They Are
...would be getting optimized. Moreover, while evolutionary theory suggests that evolving systems can improve over time, nothing guarantees that they should be driven to an optimal level. Yet when researchers...