The evolution of anti-teaching
…our model, the skill is not specified, and as mentioned above may be anything from knowledge of a beneficial location to a complex tool. Starting very simply, anti-teaching could manifest…
read moreLa plasticidad de comportamiento y desarrollo de los escarabajos estercoleros les permite sobrellevar el estrés térmico a través de las generaciones
…dung beetles. Oikos DOI: 10.1111/oik.05215. [pdf] Anna LM Macagno Senior research associate, Department of Biology, Indiana University Eduardo E Zattara Investigador Adjunto, INIBIOMA, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones…
read moreIntroducing EES Update
…Extended Evolutionary Synthesis project: Website: ees.dreamhosters.com Blog: ees.dreamhosters.com/category/blog Twitter: @EES_Update Facebook: EES Update Our objective is to provide a service to evolutionary biology and neighboring fields with helpful…
read moreA TVOL interview with philosopher Kim Sterelny: A conversation about the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
…common for scientific inquiry to begin with simple models and then add complexity as needed – even though the topic was known to be complex all along. One final question:…
read moreExtended evolutionary synthesis needs to include the social sciences
…own right, let us also recognize that the tools are shovel-ready for extending this synthesis to include the full complexities of social systems at community, societal, and even planetary scales….
read more‘Lá vou eu outra vez’ – As esperanças de Waddington finalmente serão cumpridas? Parte I
…que seus professores de embriologia operavam como artesãos ou artistas preocupados com representações esteticamente agradáveis de embriões devidamente montados e corados, e ainda estavam travando batalhas antigas sobre descendência comum….
read moreHow to fit in: The learning principles of cell differentiation
…of plasticity in terms of “multi-dimensional” reaction norms, but these remain largely unexplored. This work provides new conceptual tools to characterise these “multi-dimensional” reaction norms and to better understand…
read moreA/Prof Richard Watson
…publications on topics spanning artificial life, robotics, evolutionary computation, population genetics, neural networks and computational biology. At Southampton, he’s building his research programme and leading preparation of a new MSc…
read moreConditional gene expression, developmental plasticity, and the diversification of horned beetles
…AP 2017. J Evol Biol 10.1111/jeb.13079 [pdf] You can contact the lead author, Melissa Pespeni, via email. This study is part of the EES research program…
read moreNiche construction and evolutionary diversity in experimental marine microbial communities
…quantified. Publications Form, function and physics: the ecology of biogenic stabilisation. [download PDF] Paterson DM, Hope JA, Kenworthy J, Biles CL, Gerbersdorf SU. 2018. J Soils Sediments 18:3044–3054. …
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