Understanding the evolutionary forces related to climate changes that have been shaped genetic variation within species has long been a fundamental pursuit in biology. In this study, we generated whole-genome sequence (WGS) data from 65 cross-bred and 45 Mongolian cattle. Together with 62 whole-ge...
Briefly, for lineages in Southeastern Asia, “persistent lineages” are defined as those lineages descended from the most recent Southeastern Asia trunk node. Although we do not interpret this in terms of epidemiological persistence of transmission chains between seasons, these lineages can be seen as...
Marketing professor Vladas Griskevicius, and his colleagues offer an evolutionary perspective on the problem. They hypothesized that when we feel threatenedwe use the ancestral strategy of seeking safety in numbers.In the pack we feel less vulnerable, less likely to get eaten when the critter canno...
In a phylogenetically controlled analysis, we found that species with menopause live longer than expected given their size (Fig.1b; proportion of posterior greater than zero is 0.99). The ordinary maximum lifespan (age at which 90% of adult life years have been lived) of whales with menopause...
With the creative use of digital media, students can integrate their personal perspectives to explore the diverse and challenging issues of our time. It’s open to all students, regardless of school. We are accepting submiss...
This appeal to novelty, which spread during the seventeenth century, is striking because it is autological. To appeal to the production of new knowledge is itself a novelty. In evolutionary terms, it is a deviation compared with the preference for the repetition of old knowledge that prevailed ...
it is close to impossible. As developers, we’re going to see more push from our clients for evolutionary development of applications rather than wholesale replacement. We will be called upon to improve existing codebases, implement new features, and take these projects in initially unforeseen dire...
XTT22 was once the leading sugarcane variety in terms of planting area in China for 15 consecutive years. More than 90 percent of the country's fourth and fifth-generation sugarcane varieties were developed using it as a parent. According to Liu Yaoguang, an academician of the Chinese Academy...
An explanation for reaction norms with earlier maturation at larger size under more favourable conditions and exceptions thereof has been suggested by Day and Rowe48, based on an evolutionary response to developmental thresholds (minimum sizes that organisms must reach before transition to mature state)...
we should be able to observe this in the early stages. Second, early data give an insight into the non-equilibrium dynamics of how cultures move from one stable state to another. Third, we are able to test the boundaries of tightness-looseness theory in terms of timeline: our data ...