Bridging Cultural Gaps: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Cultural Evolution Theme Issue
…was compiled and edited by Oren Kolodny, Marcus W. Feldman and Nicole Creanza Introductory comments from the editors: The papers in this theme issue demonstrate that the study of…
read moreDevelopmental bias driving self-domestication processes and macroevolution? The case of red foxes living in urban and rural habitats
…explain these differences, and 3) could mechanisms for how variation arises (in complement to selection) be part of how divergence between urban and rural habitats occurs? Although in many…
read moreProf Per Lundberg
Per Lundberg, Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Lund University, Sweden, studies the evolutionary ecology of natural communities. The interplay between current ecological processes, such as species sorting and community assembly,…
read moreStructural inheritance: The parent as a developmental template
…because all cells come from pre-existing cells (all the way back to the origin of life), and cell components cannot spontaneously assemble themselves to form a new cell. For some…
read moreGlossary
…accommodation’ that occurs when natural selection causes environmentally induced (i.e. plastic) phenotypes to lose their environmental sensitivity over evolutionary time. Heredity: all causal mechanisms by which offspring come to…
read moreEcosystem networks and system-level functions
…important for the stability and diversity of ecosystems. We are using connectionist learning theory to investigate the reciprocal interaction between the evolution of an ecological community and the non-living components…
read moreProf Marcus Feldman
…applied mathematics and computer modeling to simulate and analyze the process of evolution. His specific areas of research include the evolution of complex genetic systems that can undergo both natural…
read moreProf Günter Wagner
Günter Wagner is Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. Wagner’s research program aims at understanding the evolution of complex characters. This problem has many dimensions,…
read moreWorkshop report: Integrating development and inheritance
…contribute to both the inheritance of features that are shared among all members of a species, as well as the inheritance of differences in features. Mechanisms include components of the…
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…
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