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Assembly Theory: What It Does and What It Does Not Do
A recent publication in Nature has generated much heated discussion about evolution, its tendency towards increasing diversity and complexity, and...
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The Role of Econes as Elementary Population-Coenotic Groups in the Integration of Evolutionary and Ecological Processes
AbstractA population-coenotic concept of an econe, an elementary structural-functional group (SFG) in a coenopopulation, is proposed. An econe has...
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Evolutionary Causation and Teleosemantics
Disputes about the causal structure of natural selection have implications for teleosemantics. Etiological, mainstream teleosemantics is based on a...
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Eco-evolutionary dynamics in two-species mutualistic systems: one-sided population decline triggers joint interaction disinvestment
The interplay between ecological and evolutionary dynamics can create feedback that reinforces external disturbances and potentially threatens...
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Evolutionary Aspects of the Oxido-Reductive Network of Methylglyoxal
In the chemoautotrophic theory for the origin of life, offered as an alternative to broth theory, the archaic reductive citric acid cycle operating...
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Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolutionary Syntheses: A Commentary on Dickins, T.E.
It has been suggestd that the evolutionary synthesis (ES) was mostly a thory of gene frequencies, neglecting developmental biology. I argue that the...
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Evaluating Mineral Lattices as Evolutionary Proxies for Metalloprotein Evolution
Protein coordinated iron-sulfur clusters drive electron flow within metabolic pathways for organisms throughout the tree of life. It is not known how...
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The vocal apparatus: An understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation in bats?
Laryngeal echolocation in bats could have evolved following two scenarios: a single origin from a common ancestor or an independent acquisition...
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Inclusive Fitness Theory Prefigured: A Reply to Rodrigues and Gardner
I am gratified that Rodrigues and Gardner largely agree with my assessment of the “extended evolutionary synthesis,” although one point could well...
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Every Evolutionist Their Own Historian: The Importance of History, Context, and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
This chapter opens with a discussion of scholarly practices within the history of science, noting a distinct difference between professional...
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Environmental niche and flight intensity are associated with molecular evolutionary rates in a large avian radiation
BackgroundMetabolic activity and environmental energy are two of the most studied putative drivers of molecular evolutionary rates. Their extensive...
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Biology, phylogenetic and evolutionary relations of Tradescantia mild mosaic virus isolates from Hungary
In Western Transdanubia in 2018 and in Central-Hungary in 2022 spiderwort plants showed flower breaking symptoms and mild mosaic on the foliage,...
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Developments in the study of poison frog evolutionary ecology I: social interactions, life history and habitat use across space and ontogeny
Poison frogs of the superfamily Dendrobatoidea have fascinated researchers since the 19th century, which is reflected in multiple studies on their...
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Role of Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance in Evolutionary Biology
The mid-twentieth century saw the incorporation of Mendelian genetics into Darwinian theories of evolution. This foundation, termed the modern...
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The Anthropic Principle for the Evolutionary Biology of Consciousness: Beyond Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism
The evolutionary origin(s) of consciousness has been a growing area of study in recent years. Nevertheless, there is intense debate on whether the...
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Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of the Human-Gut Microbiota Symbiosis in a Changing Nutritional Environment
The operational harmony between living beings and their circumstances, their ever-changing environment, is a constitutive condition of their...
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Evolutionary dynamics of pseudoautosomal region 1 in humans and great apes
BackgroundThe pseudoautosomal region 1 (PAR1) is a 2.7 Mb telomeric region of human sex chromosomes. PAR1 has a crucial role in ensuring proper...
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Evolutionary Radiation of Equids
Horses became ubiquitous elements of Cenozoic communities and reached high diversity in Neogene times. Most accounts of their diversification history...
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Evolutionary transitions in diet influence the exceptional diversification of a lizard adaptive radiation
BackgroundDiet is a key component of a species ecological niche and plays critical roles in guiding the trajectories of evolutionary change. Previous...
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Evolutionary honing in and mutational replacement: how long-term directed mutational responses to specific environmental pressures are possible
Recent results have shown that the human malaria-resistant hemoglobin S mutation originates de novo more frequently in the gene and in the population...
