They address the crises of the atmosphere and climate change, the collision of religious faith and scientific rationalism, the abortion debate and the evolution of co-operation and altruism.
There has been a long and recently revitalized debate concerning the origin and evolution of odontodes.
These studies have had an enormous scientific impact and triggered an important debate on the nature and evolution of human culture.
Ever since eukaryotic genes were discovered to be interrupted by introns, there has been a heated debate about the origin and evolution of introns.
The ongoing debate on the origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns in eukaryotes has shifted in the last few years on the origin of variations in intron density in genomes, and correlatively, on the relative rates of gain and loss of introns.
Archaeopteryx continues to play an important part in scientific debates about the origin and evolution of birds.
In particular, debates over the origins and evolution of bipedalism revolve around whether early bipeds walked with energetically economical human-like extended limb biomechanics, or with more costly ape-like bent-knee, bent-hip (BKBH) kinematics [2].
Nevertheless, debate widely exists about the genome origin and evolution of the polyploid cotton A- and D-subgenomes because such knowledge is of significance for enhanced cotton genetic improvement.
The origins and evolution of marsupial syndactyly have been debated for more than 150 years, although little observational information has been collected.
An in-depth discussion and evaluation of these hypotheses are beyond the scope of this review and the debate on the evolution of transformation and bacterial sex in general is still ongoing (for excellent reviews, please see Johnsborg et al., 2007; Michod et al., 2008).
