Neo-Darwinism and the Problem of Competition. Neo-Darwinian evolution can be described compactly by the formula, “adaptation = variation + heredity + selection.” Here “variation” refers to the fact ...

Mounting evidence indicates that our planet might experience runaway effects associated to rising temperatures and ecosystem overexploitation, leading to catastrophic shifts on short time scales.

Schulte, E.,Fry, Z. P.,Fast, E.,Weimer, W.,Forrest, S. Neutral landscapes and mutational robustness are believed to be important enablers of evolvability in biology. We apply these concepts to ...

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A divergence function on a manifold M defines a Riemannian metric g and dually coupled affine connections delta and delta * on M. When M is dually flat, that is flat with respect to delta and delta * ...

Indrischek, H.,Wieseke, N.,Stadler, P. F.,Prohaska, S. J. Background: The accurate annotation of genes in newly sequenced genomes remains a challenge. Although sophisticated comparative pipelines are ...

SFI External Professor Raissa D’Souza (UC Davis) has been elected as a 2024 Fellow at the American Association for the ...

Srinivasan, U. T.,Dunne, J. A.,Harte, J.,Martinez, N. D.

Background: Shrub cover in arctic and alpine ecosystems has increased in recent decades, and is predicted to further increase with climate change. Changes in shrub abundance may alter ecosystem carbon ...

O'Roak, B. J.,Vives, L.,Girirajan, S.,Karakoc, E.,Krumm, N.,Coe, B. P.,Levy, R.,Ko, A.,Lee, C.,Smith, J. D.,Turner, E. H.,Stanaway, I. B.,Vernot, B.,Malig, M.,Baker ...

The development of synthetic systems that enable the sustained active self-assembly of molecular blocks to mimic the complexity and dynamic behavior of living systems is of great interest in ...