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Evolution of biological information [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2000 How do genetic systems gain information by evolutionary processes? Answering this question precisely requires a robust, quantitative measure of information. Fortunately, 50 years ago Claude Shannon defined information as a decrease in the uncertainty of a receiver.
Thomas D. Schneider
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On biological evolution and environmental solutions. [PDF]
Sci Total Environ, 2020 Drawing insights from multiple disciplines is essential for finding integrative solutions that are required to tackle complex environmental problems. Human activities are causing unprecedented influence on global ecosystems, culminating in the loss of species and fundamental changes in the selective environments of organisms across the tree of life ...
Matthews B +8 more
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Biological evolution and statistical physics [PDF]
Advances in Physics, 2001 This review is an introduction to theoretical models and mathematical calculations for biological evolution, aimed at physicists. The methods in the field are naturally very similar to those used in statistical physics, although the majority of publications appeared in biology journals. The review has three parts, which can be read independently.
Barbara Drossel
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The prebiotic emergence of biological evolution. [PDF]
R Soc Open SciThe origin of life must have been preceded by Darwin-like evolutionary dynamics that could propagate it. How did that adaptive dynamics arise? And from what prebiotic molecules? Using evolutionary invasion analysis, we develop a universal framework for describing any origin story for evolutionary dynamics.
Kocher CD, Dill KA.
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Quasi-Equilibrium States and Phase Transitions in Biological Evolution [PDF]
EntropyWe developed a macroscopic description of the evolutionary dynamics by following the temporal dynamics of the total Shannon entropy of sequences, denoted by S, and the average Hamming distance between them, denoted by H. We argue that a biological system
Artem Romanenko, Vitaly Vanchurin
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Self-Organization of the Biological Evolution. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2019 We report here experiments carried out with nonpathogenic Escherichia coli bacterial strains and their phages. This research yielded interesting insights into their activities, occasionally producing genetic variants of different types. In order to not interfere with the genetic stability of the parental strains involved, we found that the bacteria are
Arber W.
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The Universal Grammar of Evolution [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2022 The evolution (sensu lato) of the cosmos can be divided in three phases: cosmological evolution (sensu stricto), biological evolution and cultural evolution. Analogies between biological and cultural evolution date from the nineteenth century although it
Koen B. Tanghe, Sylvain Billiard
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Algorithmically probable mutations reproduce aspects of evolution, such as convergence rate, genetic memory and modularity [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Natural selection explains how life has evolved over millions of years from more primitive forms. The speed at which this happens, however, has sometimes defied formal explanations when based on random (uniformly distributed) mutations.
Santiago Hernández-Orozco +2 more
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Study of Modern Human Evolution via Comparative Analysis with the Neanderthal Genome [PDF]
Genomics & Informatics, 2013 Many other human species appeared in evolution in the last 6 million years that have not been able to survive to modern times and are broadly known as archaic humans, as opposed to the extant modern humans.
Musaddeque Ahmed, Ping Liang
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The Compatibility of Evolution and Thomistic Metaphysics: A Reply to Dennis F. Polis [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2021 In this article the author discusses Dennis F. Polis’ defense of the compatibility of biological evolution and Thomistic metaphysics. Some of Polis’ methodological and metaphysical arguments are examined and it is explained why they are unfaithful to the
Robert A. Delfino
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