On the Power and Limits of Evolutionary Conservation -- Unraveling Bacterial Gene Regulatory Networks.
Our understanding that genocide is a monstrous act illustrates the limits of evolutionary theory as a grounding for morality.
The answer to this question is of fundamental significance as it could provide insights into the mechanisms underlying the limits of evolutionary optimization, as well as open up fundamentally new avenues for probing retina-signalling pathways using quantum states of light7,8,9.
See Sober (1988) for a thorough discussion of the scope and limits of evolutionary altruism.
A final set of books earn mention because they help frame the limits of evolutionary approaches to morality and culture.
Buchanan, A; Powell, R, The limits of evolutionary explanations of morality and their implications for moral progress, Ethics, vol. 126 no. 1 (January, 2015), pp. 37-67, University of Chicago Press [doi] [abs].
But, since evolutionary anthropology is based in natural science and social science, another goal of this issue is to explain as well why some disciplines of crucial importance to understanding settlement of the New World, like archeology or biodemography, require a broader theoretical and methodological framework exceeding the limits of evolutionary biology.
This new wave of interest is not independent of climate change and the need to better understand (limits of) evolutionary adaptation in non-model organisms in the field (Hoffmann and Sgro 2011).
The example comparison between the highly diverged strains of Neisseria meningitidis is likely to be close to or well beyond, the limits of evolutionary distance that is of interest to most researchers; we included this extreme example to clearly highlight the operational differences between different search strategies.
Since I am considering the conditional probability that one particular substitution occurs out of all the possible substitutions that could have occurred, under some substitution models such as F81 [ 51], or in the limit of long evolutionary time, this probability does not depend on time and mutation rate (evolutionary distance).
