PV participated in sequence manipulations, statistical and evolutionary analyses, prepared figures, and drafted the manuscript.
This same ability to think beyond his own perspective also generated Diderot's most prophetic work of fiction, "D'Alembert's Dream," a text that conjures up a godless world of speculative "genetic" manipulation and proto-evolutionary theory, 90 years before Darwin.
Active manipulations of natural processes always entail some risk of unanticipated consequences, and manipulation of evolutionary processes is no exception.
Despite the advances in understanding the mechanistic basis for host manipulation and liquefaction, insight into the evolutionary consequences and origins of these baculovirus characteristics remains speculative.
Versatility of head movements allows for better manipulation of food and objects, which arguably contributed to the ants' ecological and evolutionary success.
Within parasitology, some cases are well studied (e.g. host manipulation in relation to transmission strategy; [ 7]) but the broader epidemiological and evolutionary ramifications of extended concepts of virulence have yet to be examined.
Using soil mites in microcosms, we characterise ecological, phenotypic and evolutionary dynamics in replicated populations in response to experimental manipulations of environment (e.g. the competitive environment, female age, male quality).
Development and Evolutionary Origin of Feathers.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches, 77 6), 982-997.
But genetic and evolutionary thinking have moved on.
