…    A romance exists around the notion that animals, such as chimpanzees or dolphins, covertly harbor complex communication systems unfathomed by humans. We rather like the idea that ‘arrogant’…

…‘How do novel complex traits originate?’ is such a question. How does a major invention in evolution come into being in the first place? What are the baby steps of…

…microbial community in a certain host, and the community of hosts with their symbionts. It will also incorporate our understanding of socially- and behaviorally-mediated processes of transmission and non-genetic inheritance…

…infer growth and fitness metrics by comparing reconstructions of the same reef site through time.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMsnYTLcfmQ&feature=youtu.be     The study is taking place in Lizard Island (Australia), where…

…even completely assimilated, i.e. the different lineages could reduce their environmental sensitivity to produce constitutive divergent phenotypes. Genetic accommodation is likely to be a common process of phenotypic divergence among…

…are bounded. Definitions, it is argued, facilitate clear thinking and consensual analysis across scientific communities. Philosophers of science, on the other hand, who prize clear thinking, are frequently sceptical as…

…Wund’s4 call for a gold standard ‘single system’ combining multiple interacting constructive processes and inheritance systems that can be used to comprehend complex evolutionary processes. Moreover, the increasingly robust archaeological,…