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A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change
...of rules. For example, the evolution of the solar system, in its idealized form, unfolds exactly according to the rules of gravity. And so where our solar system is a...
Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’
...discovered. Scientists are now starting to explore what that means in the context of eukaryotic evolution. They hope either to establish direct evolutionary relationships among the growing list of structures,...
Viruses Can Scatter Their Genes Among Cells and Reassemble
...virus do this? Why would you separate your genome? What are the advantages to having these segments that are packaged separately?” asked Mark P. Zwart, an evolutionary virologist at the...
In Ecology Studies and Selfless Ants, He Finds Hope for the Future
For more than six decades, the influential biologist Edward O. Wilson has drawn connections between evolution, ecology and behavior, often sparking controversies inside and outside of science. No one else...
Edward O. Wilson on the Evolution of Social Behaviors
Edward O. Wilson, professor emeritus at Harvard University, is the influential naturalist and evolutionary theorist who introduced the concept of “sociobiology,” as well as one of the world’s leading experts...
Rapid Oxygen Changes Fueled an Explosion in Ancient Animal Diversity
...doubt that it was an extraordinary and baffling episode in evolutionary history. Why animal life got more complicated in such a hurry remains a burning question for paleontologists and evolutionary...
Icefish Study Adds Another Color to the Story of Blood
The rainbow of pigments that animals use for blood illustrates a central truth about evolution. In February, a genomics study appearing in Nature Ecology & Evolution drew attention to the...
The Astronomer Who’d Rather Build Space Cameras
Jim Gunn helped shape the theory of the evolution of the cosmos before building hardware for major observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope. In 1965, when James Edward Gunn was...
Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life
...at a severe disadvantage under natural selection. William D. Hamilton, one of the 20th century’s most prominent evolutionary theorists, developed a mathematical theory to explain the evolution of altruism through...