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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 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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Bacterial N4-methylcytosine as an epigenetic mark in eukaryotic DNA
Nature Communications, 2022 Eukaryotic DNA can be methylated as 5-methylcytosine and N6-methyladenine, but whether other forms of DNA methylation occur has been controversial. Here the authors show that a bacterial DNA methyltransferase was acquired >60 Mya in bdelloid rotifers ...
Fernando Rodriguez +3 more
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Spatial organization of the kelp microbiome at micron scales
Microbiome, 2022 Background Elucidating the spatial structure of host-associated microbial communities is essential for understanding taxon-taxon interactions within the microbiota and between microbiota and host. Macroalgae are colonized by complex microbial communities,
S. Tabita Ramírez-Puebla +5 more
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Evolution and biological control [PDF]
Evolutionary Applications, 2012 Opinions about the value of biological control are often extreme. Colloquially, biological control most often refers to classical biological control, in which one species is introduced from another region to control pests such as arthropod herbivores in agricultural systems, or weeds in managed and natural systems.1 As such, biological control has the ...
Roderick, George K +2 more
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Testing a non-destructive assay to track Plasmodium sporozoites in mosquitoes over time
Parasites & Vectors, 2023 Background The extrinsic incubation period (EIP), defined as the time it takes for malaria parasites in a mosquito to become infectious to a vertebrate host, is one of the most influential parameters for malaria transmission but remains poorly understood.
Catherine E. Oke +2 more
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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.
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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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Evolution of biological complexity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000 To make a case for or against a trend in the evolution of complexity in biological evolution, complexity needs to be both rigorously defined and measurable. A recent information-theoretic (but intuitively evident) definition identifies genomic complexity with the amount of information a sequence stores about its environment.
Christoph Adami +2 more
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