Revision Notes on Evolution (i) Ancient theories of origin of life: Various theories have been put forward to explain the phenomenon of origin of life. A few of them were only speculations while others were based on scientific grounds. These theories are – (a) Theory of special creation. ...
Author notes Thibaut Brunet Present address: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA These authors contributed equally: Claus Nielsen, Thibaut Brunet, Detlev Arendt. Authors and Affiliations Biosystematics, The Natural...
Author notes These authors contributed equally: Phil Shaw, Darcy Ogada. Authors and Affiliations Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK Phil Shaw & Christian Rutz The Peregrine Fund, Boise, ID, USA Darcy Ogada, Leah Dunn, Ralph Buij & Mar...
2003. Cornus eydeana (Cornaceae), A new cornelian cherry from China—Notes on Systematics and Evolution. Systematic Botany 28: 757–764. Xiang QY(J), Soltis DE. 2001. Dispersal-Vicariance analyses of intercontinental disjuncts: historical biogeographical implications for angiosperms in the Northern...
Evolution is considered the unifying concept in biology and is also a key theory underlying many areas of human knowledge. Teaching evolution from as early as kindergarten allows children to better understand concepts related with the biological world and prevents the development of negative feelings an...
(b) Bayesian inference of genotype class estimated with NEWHYBRIDS. The genotype classes are represented by colors, and individuals are represented as rows. Within each row (individual) the extent of the component colors indicates the posterior probability of an individual with respect to each ...
entrepreneur is just a tiny component of the system–potentially an ingenious component, but always dwarfed by the genius of the system as a whole. The watch maker in biology is the process of evolution. In markets, the closest idea we have is the invisible hand–also an evolutionary process...
Notes from France I’ve just returned from two weeks in France, the first week on the International Statistical Ecology Conference 2014 in Montpellier, and the second at the Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine (LECA) in Grenoble, visiting the groups of Wilfried Thuiller and Sébastien Lavergne, wh...
The successful colonization of new habitats has played a fundamental role during the evolution of life. Salinity is one of the strongest barriers for organisms to cross, which has resulted in the evolution of distinct marine and non-marine (including bot
Author notes These authors contributed equally: Ming-He Li, Ke-Wei Liu, Zhen Li, Hsiang-Chia Lu, Qin-Liang Ye. Authors and Affiliations Key Laboratory of Orchid Conservation and Utilization of National Forestry and Grassland Administration at College of Landscape Architecture, Fujian Agriculture and...