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How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder
...cells on Earth led predictably to the human race. Laws do not, it seems, dictate the course of evolution. The teleology and historical contingency of biology, said the evolutionary biologist...
The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees
...of evolution. “It’s difficult to build up a solid understanding of evolution without accounting for this process,” he said. Saltative branching may be fundamental across biological and cultural evolution. The...
Tiny Genomes May Offer Clues to First Plants and Animals
...evolution of cell parts. The combination of host and symbiont has allowed Tremblaya to cast off many of its genes, surviving with a genome size once thought to be impossible....
On the Microbial Frontier, Cooperation Thrives
...evolutionary biologist at Harvard University who studies microbes. “The mystery is how can this evolve?” Yeast that can cheat or cooperate allow scientists to study the evolution of cooperation in...
Solution: ‘Evolutionary Math and Just-So Stories’
...certain population structures to accelerate or slow down evolution. Ever since Darwin’s spectacular evolutionary discoveries in the Galápagos Islands, it has become increasingly clear that the process of evolution is...
Biologists Invoke the Past in Modern Bacteria
...study the evolution of the whole complex network that surrounds the EF-Tu hub. “When we think about evolution, we tend to think about it at the level of the organism,...
Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
...things, you have the evolution of cuteness, the co-evolution of cuteness, where parents find the baby’s cute and the babies evolve. So there’s all kinds of wild birds with tuft...
Did Neurons Evolve Twice?
...study, he thinks he knows why. According to traditional evolutionary biology, neurons evolved just once, hundreds of millions of years ago, likely after sea sponges branched off the evolutionary tree....
Andreas Wagner Pursues the Secrets to Evolutionary Success
...what drives evolution, and he has wondered about evolutionary innovations that seem to lead nowhere — until they suddenly become the next big thing. His most recent book, Sleeping Beauties:...