Evolutionary transitions of parasites between freshwater and marine environments.
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DOI: 10.1093/icb/icac050
Abstract: Evolutionary transitions of organisms between environments have long fascinated biologists but attention has focused almost exclusively on free-living organisms and challenges to achieve such transitions. This bias requires addressing because parasites are a major component… read more here.
Keywords: marine environments; freshwater marine; environmental transitions; parasites freshwater ... See more keywords
Catastrophe risk can accelerate unlikely evolutionary transitions
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DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2711
Abstract: Intelligent life has emerged late in Earth’s habitable lifetime, and required a preceding series of key evolutionary transitions. A simple model (the Carter model) explains the late arrival of intelligent life by positing these evolutionary… read more here.
Keywords: evolutionary transitions; critical steps; life; model ... See more keywords
Major evolutionary transitions in individuality between humans and AI
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0408
Abstract: That humans might undergo future evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) seems fanciful. However, drawing upon recent thinking concerning the origins of properties that underpin ETIs, I argue that certain ETIs are imminently realizable. Central to… read more here.
Keywords: transitions individuality; evolutionary transitions; major evolutionary; individuality humans ... See more keywords
Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of angiosperm sexual systems.
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DOI: 10.1111/ele.13815
Abstract: Angiosperm sexual systems are fundamental to the evolution and distribution of plant diversity, yet spatiotemporal patterns in angiosperm sexual systems and their drivers remain poorly known. Using data on sexual systems and distributions of 68453… read more here.
Keywords: global distribution; angiosperm sexual; distribution evolutionary; sexual systems ... See more keywords
Evolutionary transitions from camouflage to aposematism: Hidden signals play a pivotal role
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DOI: 10.1126/science.ade5156
Abstract: The initial evolution of warning signals in unprofitable prey, termed aposematism, is often seen as a paradox because any new conspicuous mutant would be easier to detect than its cryptic conspecifics and not readily recognized… read more here.
Keywords: camouflage aposematism; evolutionary transitions; coloration; aposematism ... See more keywords
Comment on “Evolutionary transitions between beneficial and phytopathogenic Rhodococcus challenge disease management”
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DOI: 10.7554/elife.35238
Abstract: I would like to report significant issues of concern regarding this paper (Savory et al., 2017). read more here.
Keywords: comment evolutionary; transitions beneficial; beneficial phytopathogenic; rhodococcus challenge ... See more keywords
Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor
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DOI: 10.7554/elife.73715
Abstract: Evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) involve the formation of Darwinian collectives from Darwinian particles. The transition from cells to multicellular life is a prime example. During an ETI, collectives become units of selection in their… read more here.
Keywords: transitions individuality; evolutionary transitions; tradeoff breaking; fitness ... See more keywords