Beyond our basic educational goal of teaching the application of evolutionary theory to research questions, the framework facilitates a few of our secondary goals.
Recently, the plant research community has also been using trait-based approaches in ecological and evolutionary research to address questions from organisms to ecosystems and beyond.
To answer these research questions, an evolutionary, multi-agent based, sector-level cumulative innovation model is designed.
Finally, we discuss a number of research questions in evolutionary biology that might be fruitfully pursued in these study systems.
In the developmental sciences specifically, there is a resistance to applying evolutionary theory to key family and developmental research questions that have been obstacles for researchers.
Our long-term research questions are: What evolutionary forces drive the divergence of SBP-box genes in land plants?
Pre- and post-instruction data were obtained for the evolutionary biology course (allowing us to address research questions 1, 2, and 3; N = 74).
Each evolutionary scenario focused on one of the core research questions addressed by the scientists featured in the exhibition.
But this begs the question: what is the goal of evolutionary research?
The use of co-evolutionary analysis in computational models to determine protein specificity and promiscuity, co-evolutionary dynamics and functional drift will open up exciting future research questions.
