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Where Animals Come From
...that puts bacteria at the center of the story of animal life. “We were obliged to interact intimately with bacteria 600 million years ago,” said King, now an evolutionary biologist...
The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting
...predict its evolution seemed a fool’s errand. But lately, evolution is starting to look surprisingly predictable. Lässig believes that soon it may even be possible to make evolutionary forecasts. Scientists...
Hints of Life’s Start Found in a Giant Virus
...a bioinformatics specialist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, traced the evolutionary history of proteins found in several giant viruses in a 2012 study in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology....
The Game Theory of Life
...hasn’t yet proven this mathematically. Traditional applications of game theory to evolution examine how evolutionary processes shape an individual’s behavior. They have also been used to study the evolution of...
In a Grain, a Glimpse of the Cosmos
...the other scientists have spent the past two years working out a plausible backstory for the peculiar concoction. “That’s how we build up our understanding of the evolution of the...
Evolving With a Little Help From Our Friends
...and that it plays a much more important role in evolution than anyone thought,” Bordenstein said. The idea that cooperation could be a driving force in evolution was first proposed...
Inside the Din, Cells Fight Noise With Noise
...gene, evolution may be able to fine-tune it, just as the evolutionary process might make a predator faster or a fish a better swimmer. Experiments in yeast suggest that this...
In Bees, a Hunt for Roots of Social Behavior
...who studies a different bee with similar behavioral flexibility. “L. albipes is a nice way of looking at social evolution within a species.” Among the bee varieties that can adopt...
Early Life in Death Valley
...on land more than a billion years ago. Before he retires, Knauth would like to add microfossils from the cave to the body of evidence that supports his evolutionary model....