In plants, more primitive species (S. moellendorffii and P. patens) probably generated fewer subpopulations in their recent evolutionary history than the more modern ones (A. thaliana, Z. mays).
A neglected factor during the modern evolutionary synthesis, adaptive phenotypic plasticity, more recently attracted the attention of many evolutionary biologists and is now recognized as an important ingredient in both population persistence and diversification.
Following this extended and more modern perspective, we think that two general classes of evolutionary mechanisms might biologically underlie our kinetic model of transitions between phenotypes of tumour cells: stress-induced mutations and epigenetic switches.
Regardless of the question, the average scores on all questions concerning the acceptance of evolution showed an upward deflection, indicating that, as a whole, the group more consistently came to accept the scientific validity of modern evolutionary theory.
Similarly, whatever one thinks about the work of Richard Dawkins, he deserves more than a few passing references in a book for everyone about modern evolutionary thinking.
Gould is more interested in tracing his intellectual ancestors than in positioning himself in relation to modern evolutionary thought.
Still, critics of modern evolutionary theory hailed the board's decision to ask students to learn more about what skeptics of Darwinism see as puzzles in the fossil record.
More than 850 delegates flocked to a seminal conference in London on Saturday about the compatibility of modern evolutionary theory and Islamic theology – despite scaremongering and the refusal of Islamic student societies to participate.
With both primitive and more modern traits, it is a bridge between our genus and its ancestors and points to when and where that evolutionary transition took place.
What is more, the best paper published in this new section will be awarded a prize named after R.A. Fisher, a father of modern evolutionary biology and statistics and a strong believer in replicating experiments.
