In our recent paper published in Biological Theory, we present compelling evidence that the holobiont is a unit of evolutionary selection, and we propose a new mathematical model to help…

…illustrate this shift in approach using a common herbaceous plant, Waterpepper Smartweed, one of several widespread annual species in the genus Polygonum that we study in my lab. These plants…

…organized as part of the EES research program. For two and a half days the participants – biologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, anthropologists, historians and philosophers of science – presented their…

…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…

Question 3: Why didn’t Waddington’s attempts fix the division?   Answer 3: It’s complicated, but two factors jump out.   I devoted chapters of a book to this question, so…

…two orders of magnitude higher compared to the Eastern United States. As a consequence, WA females have to compete much more intensely for breeding opportunities (i.e. dung and tunnel space),…