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Solution: ‘Are Genes Selfish or Cooperative?’
...considered. As I said before, evolution is ruthlessly, incorruptibly meritocratic. If such phenomena exist, they do so because they are either evolutionarily neutral, or perhaps possess other advantages for the...
Genetic Struggles Within Cells May Create New Species
...other,” said Elina Immonen, an evolutionary geneticist and researcher at Uppsala University. “Males and females also might have different evolutionary interests.” The mismatch of evolutionary forces on mitochondrial and nuclear...
Are Genes Selfish or Cooperative?
...I believe it fully deserves the scientific success it has achieved. I’m also an admirer of Dawkins’ writing on evolution. I would go so far as to say that if...
Viruses Would Rather Jump to New Hosts Than Evolve With Them
The discovery that viruses move between species unexpectedly often is rewriting ideas about their evolutionary history — and may have troubling implications for the threat from emerging diseases. When new...
To Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics, Join Two Kinds of Law
...of Ten also teaches us that, while we traverse the various scales of length, time and energy, we also travel through different realms of knowledge. Psychology studies human behavior, evolutionary...
Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution
Nigel Goldenfeld explains how condensed matter physics provides insights into the collective state of early life on Earth. Video by Seth Lowe for Quanta Magazine...
Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution
...of biology? God, no. There’s no unified theory of biology. Evolution is the nearest thing you’re going to get to that. Biology is a product of evolution; there aren’t exceptions...
Interspecies Hybrids Play a Vital Role in Evolution
...an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University. Today, he added, saying that such hybridizations don’t affect reconstructions of evolutionary history or “that this wasn’t useful in adaptive evolution — that’s no...
A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
...their evolution (as we did for pro-ISIS groups) from now on, can we foresee the growth to an outburst like a future Charlottesville, but elsewhere in the U.S.? I am...