…write, run, test and rewrite itself all without a programmer? From the perspective of computer science, a living cell resembles an elaborate chemical computer, but can a chemical computer emerge…

…constructing organisms, where organisms modify the environment to differing degrees, utilize the constructed environment/resource in different ways, and compete with each other for access to the constructed resource. Importantly, niche…

…Chapman, p. 451. [4] Reynolds, op. cit. [5] L. Buss, 1987, The Evolution of Individuality, Princeton University Press. [6] W. D. Hamilton, 1964, ‘The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour’ I…

…that humans are ”smartest”, chimps and bonobos are “next smartest” and so on. You were also among the first to build computer simulation models of cultural evolution. What were the…

…Blog: https://evolutionletters.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/the-role-of-mobile-genetic-elements-in-evolution-and-development/   Read the original paper here: Feiner N. 2019. Evolutionary lability in Hox cluster structure and gene expression in Anolis lizards . Evolution Letters. Early View. [download pdf]…

…in what senses past natural selection prepares developmental systems for novel challenges. Kirschner and Gerhart’s emphasis on ontogenetic exploratory and selective processes seems to me particularly relevant here.   Katrina…

…liked under the EES project.   Check out his new paper:   Developmental bias in the fossil record. [download PDF] Illiam S. C. Jackson. 2019. Evolution & Development DOI: 10.1111/ede.12312…

In Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, the key phrase is “survival of the fittest”: those organisms that are best fit to carry out the tasks of living in…