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Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution
Nigel Goldenfeld explains how condensed matter physics provides insights into the collective state of early life on Earth.
Edward O. Wilson on the Evolution of Social Behaviors
Edward O. Wilson, professor emeritus at Harvard University, is the influential naturalist and evolutionary theorist who introduced the concept of “sociobiology,” as well as one of the world’s leading experts on ants. Here, he explains the relevance of evolved insect behaviors to human nature.
The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality
...perceptions is nothing like reality. What’s more, he says, we have evolution itself to thank for this magnificent illusion, as it maximizes evolutionary fitness by driving truth to extinction. Getting...
The Surprising Origins of Life’s Complexity
...this process “constructive neutral evolution.” Gray has been encouraged by some recent studies that provide compelling evidence for constructive neutral evolution. One of the leaders in this research is Joe...
The Game Theory of Life
...hasn’t yet proven this mathematically. Traditional applications of game theory to evolution examine how evolutionary processes shape an individual’s behavior. They have also been used to study the evolution of...
A Ticking Evolutionary Clock
...evolution. Carrie Arnold’s article, “Evolution Runs Faster on Short Timescales,” explores new research showing that genetic changes that are quite brisk when measured over a few generations seem to slow...
Evolving With a Little Help From Our Friends
...and that it plays a much more important role in evolution than anyone thought,” Bordenstein said. The idea that cooperation could be a driving force in evolution was first proposed...
How to Build Life in a Pre-Darwinian World
...expected. “Maybe there was some simpler form of evolution that preceded Darwinian evolution,” said Niles Lehman, a biochemist at Portland State University in Oregon. The Pre-Darwinian World When most people...
Does Competition Drive Diversity of Species?
...It became a textbook example of an evolutionary tenet known as “character displacement.” In Darwinian evolution, organisms compete for resources, and the winners get to pass their genome to future...