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Seger, Jon | 1998 Sewall Wright Award: William Donald Hamilton | The Sewall Wright Award was established in 1991 to honor active investigators who have contributed in especially significant ways to the conceptual unification of the biological sciences. This year's recipient is William D. Hamilton of Oxford University. Beginning in the 1960s with his papers on the... | Evolution; Biological; Research | 1999 |
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Carrier, David R. | Coupled evolution of breathing and locomotion as a game of leapfrog | Because the increase in metabolic rate related to locomotor activity places demands on the cardiorespiratory apparatus, it is not surprising that the evolution of breathing and of locomotion are coupled. As the respiratory faculty becomes more refined, increasingly aerobic life strategies can be exp... | Evolution; Coupled evolution; Breathing; Locomotion; Cardiorespiratory apparatus | 2006 |
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Carrier, David R. | Electromyographic pattern of the gular pump in monitor lizards | Gular pumping in monitor lizards is known to play an important role in lung ventilation, but its evolutionary origin has not yet been addressed. To determine whether the gular pump derives from the buccal pump of basal tetrapods or is a novel invention, we investigated the electromyographic activity... | Electromyographic pattern; Gular pump; Varanus exanthematicus; Lung ventilation; Evolution | 2001 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Evolutionary ecology of symbiotic ant-plant relationships | Abstract.--A tabular survey of ant-plant symbioses worldwide summarizes aspects of the evolutionary ecology of these associations. Remarkable similarities between ant-plant symbioses in disjunct tropical regions result from convergent and parallel evolution of similarly preadapted ants and plants. ... | Symbioses; Evolution; Taxonomic | 1993 |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Group selection by selective emigration: the effects of migration and kin structure | Group selection may operate through selective emigration, as Sewall Wright envisioned, as well as through selective extinction. The discrete-generation model of selective emigration developed here yields the following conclusions. 1. The fitness benefit of altruism, "depends on the frequency of altr... | Natural selection; Selective extinction; Evolution | 1990-03 |
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Poulter, Charles Dale | Isoprenyl diphosphate synthases: protein sequence comparisons, a phylogenetic tree, and predictions of secondary structure | Isoprenyl diphosphate synthases are ubiquitous enzymes that catalyze the basic chain-elongation reaction in the isoprene biosynthetic pathway. Pairwise sequence comparisons were made for 6 farnesyl diphosphate synthases, 6 geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases, and a hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase... | Catalytic site; Evolution; Farnesyl diphosphate; Geranylgeranyl diphosphate; Prenyltransferase; Substrate binding: | 1994 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Ontogeny of information: developmental systems and evolution (Book Review) | A review of the book "Ontogeny of information: developmental systems and evolution" by Susan Oyama. | Information theory, biology; Books; Developmental systems; Evolution | 2001-06-23 |
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Farmer, Colleen G. | Parental care: the key to understanding endothermy and other convergent features in birds and mammals | Birds and mammals share a number of features that are remarkably similar but that have evolved independently. One of these characters, endothermy, has been suggested to have played a cardinal role in avian and mammalian evolution. I hypothesize that it is parental care, rather than endothermy, that ... | Evolution; Metabolism; Convergence | 2000 |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Population differences in quantitative characters as opposed to gene frequencies | Hypotheses about evolution can be tested by comparing genetics differences with those of quantitative characters. Such comparisons are one source of information concerning the forces that maintain variation among natural populations. | Genes; Evolution; Anthropology | 1986-05 |
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McElreath, Richard | When natural selection favors imitation of parents | It is commonly assumed that parents are important sources of socially learned behavior and beliefs. However, the empirical evidence that parents are cultural models is ambiguous, and debates continue over their importance. A formal theory that examines the evolution of psychological tendencies to i... | Transmission; Evolution; Culture | 2008 |
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