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Researchers Rethink the Ancestry of Complex Cells
...details of later ones and inferring their evolutionary relationships. Right now is “an incredibly exciting time” for such research, said Michelle Leger, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Evolutionary...
Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization
...Kuramoto observed in an email. “Without a doubt, the processes of biological evolution must have developed this highly useful mechanism. I expect man-made systems will also become much more functionally...
The Math That Tells Cells What They Are
...would be getting optimized. Moreover, while evolutionary theory suggests that evolving systems can improve over time, nothing guarantees that they should be driven to an optimal level. Yet when researchers...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that can’t be automated?...
Doudna’s Confidence in CRISPR’s Research Potential Burns Bright
...power of CRISPR, the precision genome-editing technology she codeveloped. CRISPR “gives us a way to ultimately control the evolution of any organism — including ourselves. It is a profound thing....
Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn
...governing styles and systems with natural checks on the emergence of inequality,” Jessica Flack, an evolutionary biologist and complexity scientist at the Santa Fe Institute, wrote in an email. “And...
New Squid Genome Shines Light on Symbiotic Evolution
...for this type of coevolution across a variety of marine species. “The mind-boggling diversity and abundance of microbes makes it daunting to begin to understand these concepts of coevolution,” he...
Artificial Intelligence Finds Ancient ‘Ghosts’ in Modern DNA
...not only for identifying unforeseen ghosts but also for uncovering the very faded footprints of the evolutionary processes that have shaped who we’ve become. The Search for Subtle Signatures Current...
Fragile DNA Enables New Adaptations to Evolve Quickly
If highly repetitive gene-regulating sequences in DNA are easily lost, then that may explain why some adaptations evolve quickly and repeatedly. Evolutionary biologists have puzzled over why nature, with vast...