The human eye is an excellent example of suboptimal bottom-up design resulting from the constraints of evolutionary historical contingency.
It has long been postulated that diversity in marine species or communities may follow latitudinal gradients with diversity peaking at the equator and declining towards higher latitudes [5], with evolutionary, historical and ecological mechanisms suggested as drivers [6].
Moreover, epistasis and pleiotropy are interconnected features, because both arise from the molecular interactions that underlie biological functions and are affected by evolutionary historical contingencies and physicochemical constraints (Maynard Smith et al. 1985; Novak et al. 2006).
By definition, "Evolution" is a vast undertaking, touching on the many implications of evolutionary theory: historical, philosophical, scientific, theological and even sexual.
These new field studies reflected and accelerated a change of theoretical focus from the evolutionary and historical interests of the 19th century.
I am particularly interested in systematic questions that address evolutionary processes, historical biogeography and ecology, and relationships of California plants and their descendant lineages elsewhere (e.g., Hawaii).
Integrated analysis and assessment of cities with regard to human health, ecosystem integrity and resource use would build on evolutionary and historical perspectives, and assist in understanding current environmental and health impacts of urbanism and options for the future.
In his discussions of language, symbolic representation, and cognitive development, Tomasello describes with authority and ingenuity the "ratchet effect" of these capacities working over evolutionary and historical time to create the kind of cultural artifacts and settings within which each new generation of children develops.
In this discussions of language, symbolic representation, and cognitive-development, the author describes with authority and ingenuity the "ratchet effect" of the capacities working over evolutionary and historical time to create the kind of cultural artifacts and settings within which each new generation of children develops.
This talk reviews our work on loss of genome-wide variation, evolutionary potential, historical demography, and natural selection in these populations.
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