Extra-genetic inheritance and adaptation to novel environments
…to toxic cyanobacteria and offspring fitness in Daphnia magna: Implications for the evolution of anticipatory maternal effects. [download PDF] Radersma R, Hegg A, Noble DWA, Uller T. 2018. Ecology and…
read moreDr Maria Dornelas
…of existing data, and fieldwork in her research, and most of her research questions fall under the disciplines of community ecology, macroecology and biogeography. She tends to work on intermediate…
read more‘Lá vou eu outra vez’ – As esperanças de Waddington finalmente serão cumpridas? Parte II
…um resultado em vez de outro (p 45). Waddington considerava o embrião como um conjunto de competências, um sistema dinâmico nebuloso e multi-determinado, não como uma máquina já instruída por…
read more“Here I Go Again”—will Waddington’s hopes finally be fulfilled? Part I
…not to account for the most important problems in biology. Chiefly, he wondered how one accounts for organismal complexity in the face of initial simplicity. Development and evolution were the…
read moreWorkshop report: Integrating development and inheritance
…developmental biology, developmental plasticity research, developmental systems theory, and niche construction theory. One possibility is to treat only those mechanisms that allow high-fidelity transmission as inheritance. But advocates of a…
read moreDarwin 1.0: Is the EES playing catch-up?
…his theory of evolution’ [2]. Only in such an intellectual world, a world still sustained by MS assumptions, could the MS be said to capture the ‘central tenets’ of Darwin’s…
read moreVacancy: Postdoc position in evolution and inclusive inheritance
Applications are invited for a 2-year post-doctoral position to work with Professor Rufus Johnstone in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, on mathematical and computational modeling of the…
read moreHow evolution learns from experience
…also shed light on how lineages maintain the ability to evolve as they adapt. Publications How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against. [download PDF] Rago A, Kouvaris K, Uller…
read morePNAS Special Edition: Extension of Biology Through Culture
…be viewed free and a news feature provides an overview of the topic. Many of the talks can be viewed on our films page and the colloquium’s YouTube channel….
read moreLinking micro- and macroevolution through studies of thermal plasticity in an old insect order
…of macroevolutionary diversification. In particular, we are interested in testing three predictions/questions: 1. Does phenotypic plasticity in a trait evolve more slowly than a population mean for that trait,…
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