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Teaching evolutionary biology [PDF]

Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2004
Evolutionary Biology integrates several disciplines of Biology in a complex and interactive manner, where a deep understanding of the subject demands knowledge in diverse areas.
Rosana Tidon, Richard C. Lewontin
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Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: violating Bell's inequalities in language [PDF]

In N. Gontier, J. P. Van Bendegem and D. Aerts (Eds.), Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture. Dordrecht: Springer (2005)., 2004
We show the presence of genuine quantum structures in human language. The neo-Darwinian evolutionary scheme is founded on a probability structure that satisfies the Kolmogorovian axioms, and as a consequence cannot incorporate quantum-like evolutionary change.
Aerts, Diederik, Czachor, Marek, D'Hooghe, Bart   +2 more
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Evolutionary biology of language [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2000
Language is the most important evolutionary invention of the last few million years. It was an adaptation that helped our species to exchange information, make plans, express new ideas and totally change the appearance of the planet. How human language evolved from animal communication is one of the most challenging questions for evolutionary biology ...
Martin A. Nowak
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Evolutionary biology for the 21st century [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2013
New theoretical and conceptual frameworks are required for evolutionary biology to capitalize on the wealth of data now becoming available from the study of genomes, phenotypes, and organisms - including humans - in their natural environments.Molecular ...
Arnold, Stevan J., Bejerano, Gill, Brodie, E. D., Hibbett, David, Hoekstra, Hopi E., Losos, Jonathan B., Mindell, David P., Monteiro, Antónia, Moritz, Craig, Orr, H. Allen, Petrov, Dmitri A., Renner, Susanne S., Ricklefs, Robert E., Soltis, Pamela S., Turner, Thomas L.   +14 more
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GMOD for Evolutionary Biology [PDF]

Nature Precedings, 2010
The Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD, "http://gmod.org":http://gmod.org) project provides interoperable, open source software tools for managing, visualizing and annotating biological data.
Dave Clements, Robert Buels
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Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology [PDF]

The American Historical Review, 1998
A review of a book by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis titled Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis\r\nand Evolutionary Biology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)
Dietrich, Michael
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The use of information theory in evolutionary biology [PDF]

Annals NY Acad. Sciences 1256 (2012) 49-65, 2011
Information is a key concept in evolutionary biology. Information is stored in biological organism's genomes, and used to generate the organism as well as to maintain and control it. Information is also "that which evolves". When a population adapts to a local environment, information about this environment is fixed in a representative genome. However,
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Natural selection maximizes Fisher information [PDF]

Frank, S. A. 2009. Natural selection maximizes Fisher information. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:231-244, 2009
In biology, information flows from the environment to the genome by the process of natural selection. But it has not been clear precisely what sort of information metric properly describes natural selection. Here, I show that Fisher information arises as the intrinsic metric of natural selection and evolutionary dynamics.
Amari, Ben-Naim, Brillouin, Crow, Crow, Edwards, Ewens, Ewens, Fisher, Fisher, Frank, Frank, Frank, Frieden, Frieden, Krakauer, Martyushev, Odling-Smee, Price, Price, Price, Price, Robertson, Tribus, Wheeler   +24 more
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Frail hypotheses in evolutionary biology. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2010
In the last decades, under the headings of “mutation strategies,” “evolvability,” or “soft inheritance,” many ideas have been advanced on mechanisms assumed to promote innovative evolution beyond what one may anticipate from the classical model of random mutation and selection.
Jacques Ninio
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The contribution of statistical physics to evolutionary biology [PDF]

, 2011
Evolutionary biology shares many concepts with statistical physics: both deal with populations, whether of molecules or organisms, and both seek to simplify evolution in very many dimensions. Often, methodologies have undergone parallel and independent development, as with stochastic methods in population genetics.
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