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Conserved wing shape variation across biological scales unveils dialectical relationships between micro- and macroevolution [PDF]

Communications Biology
Variation enables short-term evolution (microevolution), but its role in long-term evolution (macroevolution) is debated. Here, we analyzed a dataset of Drosophila wing variation across six levels of biological organization to demonstrate that ...
Keita Saito, Masahito Tsuboi, Yuma Takahashi   +2 more
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Cultural macroevolution matters [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017
Evolutionary thinking can be applied to both cultural microevolution and macroevolution. However, much of the current literature focuses on cultural microevolution. In this article, we argue that the growing availability of large cross-cultural datasets facilitates the use of computational methods derived from evolutionary biology to answer broad-scale
Russell D Gray, Joseph Watts, Gray Russell D   +2 more
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Macroevolution

, 2020
Macroevolution is the study of patterns and processes associated with evolutionary change at and above the species level, and includes investigations of both evolutionary tempo and mode. Tempo refers to the rate or pace of change, whereas mode refers to how that change occurs.
Saupe, E, Myers, C
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Stolephorus falco sp. nov. (Teleostei, Clupeiformes, Engraulidae), a new anchovy from Sumatra, Indonesia [PDF]

ZooKeys
A new anchovy species, Stolephorus falco sp. nov., is described based on three museum specimens collected from northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Although the new species resembles S. baganensis Delsman, 1931, S. dubiosus Wongratana, 1983, S.
Harutaka Hata, Lauren Sallan, Hiroyuki Motomura   +2 more
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A novel method for identifying key genes in macroevolution based on deep learning with attention mechanism [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
Macroevolution can be regarded as the result of evolutionary changes of synergistically acting genes. Unfortunately, the importance of these genes in macroevolution is difficult to assess and hence the identification of macroevolutionary key genes is a ...
Jiawei Mao, Yong Cao, Yan Zhang, Biaosheng Huang, Youjie Zhao   +4 more
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A macroevolution-inspired approach to reveal novel antibiotic resistance mechanisms [PDF]

eLife
With the continuous rise in antibiotic resistance, novel methods that can reveal currently unknown antibiotic resistance mechanisms are essential to prepare and inform health responses and novel antibiotic discovery campaigns. Here, we built a library of
Fernanda T Subtil, Teresa FG Machado, Holly Douglas, Joanna M Kirkpatrick, Mark Skehel, Acely Garza-Garcia, Luiz Pedro S de Carvalho   +6 more
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Human Development X: Explanation of Macroevolution — Top-Down Evolution Materializes Consciousness. The Origin of Metamorphosis [PDF]

The Scientific World Journal, 2006
In this paper, we first give a short discussion of the macroevolution viewing life as information-directed, complex, dynamic systems. On this basis, we give our explanation of the origin of life and discuss the top-down evolution of molecules, proteins ...
Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Søren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick   +2 more
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charisma: An R package to perform reproducible colour characterization of digital images for biological studies

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Advances in digital imaging and software tools have provided increasingly accessible datasets and methods for analysing colour evolution. Despite the variety of computational packages available, most rely on colour classification before running analyses.
Shawn T. Schwartz, Whitney L. E. Tsai, Elizabeth A. Karan, Mark S. Juhn, Allison J. Shultz, John E. McCormack, Thomas B. Smith, Michael E. Alfaro   +7 more
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Evolutionary Footprint: A Systemic Indicator in Evolution, Ecology and Conservation

Evolutionary Applications
The growing awareness of evolutionary responses to human‐induced environmental changes highlights the need to better understand and integrate evolutionary perspectives into life sciences and, more broadly, into biodiversity conservation.
Thibault Genissel, Alexandre Robert, Jane Lecomte, François Sarrazin   +3 more
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When lingulid brachiopods became infaunal(?) – perspectives from the morphological and anatomical information [PDF]

Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2023
Morphology usually serves as an effective proxy for functional ecology, and the evaluation of morphological, anatomical, and ecological changes allows for a deeper understanding of the nature of diversification and macroevolution.
Yue Liang, Luke C. Strotz, Timothy P. Topper, Lars E. Holmer, Graham E. Budd, Yanlong Chen, Ruisen Fang, Yazhou Hu, Zhifei Zhang   +8 more
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