"It's not as concrete as the evolutionary process used by something like Electric Sheep, since it's just me as an individual guiding it," said Proctor, "but still, I'm selecting code based on the visual characteristics it produces and pruning it over time".
Variation in symbiont tolerances to heat stress among within-clade symbiont types (i.e. [11]) suggests that the host may acclimatize to environmental changes by shuffling symbiont composition toward closely related symbionts (intra-cladal types) where evolutionary divergences are not as great as between those symbionts of different clades.
Although some global features of S. cerevisiae replication are conserved: Centromeres replicate early, whereas telomeres replicate late, we found that replication origins both in L. kluyveri and L. waltii do not behave as evolutionary fragile sites.
In addition, we found that contrary to S. cerevisiae and K. lactis (Di Rienzi et al. 2009; Gordon et al. 2009; Liachko et al. 2010), active replication origins in L. kluyveri and in L. waltii do not behave as evolutionary fragile sites.
Species with distributions on the scale of continents are particularly useful as they are often not at evolutionary equilibrium throughout their range, with distinct populations containing genetic signatures of events that have differentially impacted the continent-wide biota [ 2].
The symptoms of depression - both the rumination on what went wrong and why that Lehrer focuses on, and the lethargy, hopelessness, decreased interest in sex and food that go along with it - are best understood and responded to not as an evolutionary advantage but as a wake-up call.
(Females are thought to have a better chance of reproducing than males in tough times, so aborting them doesn't make as much evolutionary sense).
Despite plenty of speculation, however, we know as yet very little about the true impact of evolutionary papers in journals not specifically classified as evolutionary.
Ellegren et al. (1995) suggest that while genomic loci may be orthologous among related species, the polymorphism about those loci are not generally conserved as evolutionary age increases.
As the cross-species annotation was generated based on orthology, ie, pairwise genome alignment, it does not work well as evolutionary distance from the base species to the target species increases.
