... utility of sex, according to an intriguing new theory of evolutionary biology, may be its ability to promote genes that play ... at Stanford University and a world-renowned theorist in evolutionary biology. "The approach we take is different from usual ...
... intriguing new theory of evolutionary biology says the reason sexual reproduction may be so successful is that it promotes ... . This idea of genetic mixability hits on the difficulty evolutionary biologists have had in understanding sex, specifically its role ...
... and removes any subjectivity," says Michael Braun, an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Institution not associated with this project. "This is a major step forward for evolutionary biology ...
... ’ve been putting the case for some months now, that evolutionary biology is in a deplorable state due to an uncritical ... on Hamilton’s Rule, Selfish Gene Theory, and Biology.) Contributing biologists have responded by telling me ...
... that the fitness of the virus increases over time and the genome shrinks, in a pattern similar to theoretical predictions from evolutionary biology ...
... to address one of the most exciting areas of research in modern evolutionary biology: the origin of complex traits,” Jones ... evolved in seahorses and pipefish. “A big question in evolutionary biology is how a novel structure gets all of the necessary ...
... international scientists have launched a scientific journal devoted to using evolutionary biology to tackle the world's major biological crises. The new journal, titled Evolutionary Applications publishes articles that use evolution to address ...
... believes it may finally have an answer to this enduring mystery. "Cannibalism," said Couzin, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton. Writing in the May 8 online ...
... in mouse and man, a study by University of Michigan evolutionary biologists Ben-Yang Liao and Jianzhi ... disease," said Zhang, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. "Our results show that may not always be the case ...
... impact on the amount of time they spend on evolution. The authors propose requiring extra courses in evolutionary biology. “The extra background could make a large ...
... , genomic matter and protein coat of this unique virus. The interesting observation from the point of view of evolutionary biology is that it appears possible that a viral protein ...
... for life on Mars," says Nicholas J. Tosca, a postdoctoral researcher in Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. "However, to really assess Mars ...
... Assistant Professor Rebecca Safran of the ecology and evolutionary biology department retrieves a North American barn swallow from a mist net for marking and release ...
... down what's going on at the cellular level," said Jacques Dumais, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University. At the symposium, Dumais ...
... to a group of Kenyan nomads, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. Scientists have shown that an ADHD-associated ...
