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Natural Selection and Scale Invariance [PDF]
Life, 2023 This review points out that three of the essential features of natural selection—competition for a finite resource, variation, and transmission of memory—occur in an extremely simple, thermalized molecular population, one of colliding “billiard balls ...
Adrian F. Tuck
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Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection [PDF]
EntropyEvolution by natural selection is believed to be the only possible source of spontaneous adaptive organisation in the natural world. This places strict limits on the kinds of systems that can exhibit adaptation spontaneously, i.e., without design ...
Christopher L. Buckley +5 more
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F1000Research, 2021 Background: Synthetic engineering of bacteria to produce industrial products is a burgeoning field of research and application. In order to optimize genome design, designers need to understand which genes are essential, which are optimal for growth, and ...
Granger Sutton +6 more
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F1000Research, 2021 Background: Synthetic engineering of bacteria to produce industrial products is a burgeoning field of research and application. In order to optimize genome design, designers need to understand which genes are essential, which are optimal for growth, and ...
Granger Sutton +6 more
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Adaptations Accumulated under Prolonged Resource Exhaustion Are Highly Transient
mSphere, 2020 Many nonsporulating bacterial species can survive for years within exhausted growth media in a state termed long-term stationary phase (LTSP). We have been carrying out evolutionary experiments aimed at elucidating the dynamics of genetic adaptation ...
Sarit Avrani +2 more
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All aboard the 'Elephant Express', a practical solution for human-elephant coexistence
Pachyderm, 2023 One of the most significant challenges for elephant conservation is managing negative interactions that occur where people and elephants use the same space and compete for resources.
Anna Songhurst +9 more
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Natural Disaster and Natural Selection [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 In this paper, we investigate whether a natural selection mechanism works for firm exit. By using data of firms after a devastating earthquake, the Great Tohoku Earthquake, we examine the impact of firm efficiency on firm exit both inside and outside the earthquake-affected areas. We find evidence suggesting that more efficient firms are less likely to
Uchida, Hirofumi +5 more
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Path-dependent selection—a bridge between natural selection and neutral selection
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Path-dependent selection follows the premise of complete symmetry in the neutral theory of selection; mutations in the natural world are entirely based on statistical randomness, lack directionality, and thus do not exhibit differences in fitness.
Rui-Wu Wang +9 more
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Friendship and natural selection [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014 More than any other species, humans form social ties to individuals who are neither kin nor mates, and these ties tend to be with similar people. Here, we show that this similarity extends to genotypes. Across the whole genome, friends’ genotypes at the single nucleotide polymorphism level tend to be positively correlated (homophilic).
Christakis, Nicholas A, Fowler, James H
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