…show that incorporating nongenetic inheritance into our models could help us to answer many evolutionary questions. What we’re still lacking are direct, experimental tests of the role of nongenetic inheritance…

…in our latest blog. Mobile DNA sequences – transposable elements or TEs for short – are found in the genome of virtually all organisms. As their name implies, TEs can…

…over time.         One particular type of emergent pattern formation that is observed frequently in biological systems is that of synchronized oscillations. For example, fireflies flash on…

…which organisms modify their own and each other’s evolutionary niches. Examples of niche construction include the building of nests and burrows and modification of physical and chemical conditions by animals,…

…Developmental Approach. Katrina Falkenberg is the science communication and outreach officer for the EES research program. She interviewed Wallace about developmental bias and its role in evolution.     Katrina:…

…“better” than another, and notes that the eggs of sea urchins, reared in lime-free water, develop, “in apparent health and comfort”, into larvae that lack the usual skeleton. The implication…

…and nobody took any notice for a long time. Now it’s clear that some epigenetic mechanisms are not replication mechanisms; they are reconstruction mechanisms.   One has to remember that…

…N. Laland A comprehensive treatment of the concept of causation in evolutionary biology. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/evolutionary-causation   Find out more about the EES research program at www.ees.dreamhosters.com Follow us on twitter @EES_update…

…informs how one might frame a research program into their origin. In the case of wing tails, initial focus on genes and pathways that instruct outgrowth formation near the posterior…