Darwinian threshold or Darwinian transition is a term introduced by Carl Woese to describe a transition period during the evolution of the first cells...
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with a RNA genome instead of the usual DNA genome. In Carl Woese's Darwinian threshold period of cellular evolution, the progenotes are also thought to...
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cells Chemoton – Abstract model for the fundamental unit of life Darwinian threshold – Period during the evolution of the first cells Last eukaryotic...
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the level of the ecosystem. The transition to modern cells (the "Darwinian Threshold") occurred when organisms evolved translation mechanisms with modern...
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adaptation from vertical to horizontal gene transfer. He uses the term "Darwinian Threshold" for the time of major transition of evolutionary mechanisms from...
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the standard. This lateral gene transfer occurred also beyond the Darwinian threshold, after heredity or vertical gene transfer was established. "Sequence...
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Genetic assimilation (section A Darwinian explanation)
Waddington became critical of the neo-Darwinian synthetic theory of evolution, he still described himself as a Darwinian, and called for an extended evolutionary...
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State switching (redirect from Comparing Darwinian and Lamarckian modalities)
needs to be considered here is the evolutionary timescale. A key point in Darwinian evolution is that it works very slowly, over millions of years of geological...
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life is a 1995 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about Darwinian evolution and summarizes the...
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temporally-changing colony needs, and the value of adaptability and efficiency under Darwinian competition, all form a theoretical basis favoring the existence of evolved...
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Viral quasispecies (section Error threshold)
dynamics is helping to confront. There is an increasing perception that Darwinian principles should assist in the planning of antiviral designs. The aim...
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The quasispecies model is a description of the process of the Darwinian evolution of certain self-replicating entities within the framework of physical...
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equivalent of a gene) as a way to encourage readers to think about how Darwinian principles might be extended beyond the realm of genes. It was intended...
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geneticists began to connect Mendel's rules of inheritance of single factors to Darwinian evolution. For early geneticists, it was not immediately clear that the...
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actpsy.2024.104177. PMID 38354564. Allen NB, Badcock PB (July 2006). "Darwinian models of depression: a review of evolutionary accounts of mood and mood...
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proposed to obey a common fundamental principal called "the Darwinian dynamic". The Darwinian dynamic was formulated by first considering how microscopic...
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PMID 760197. Nesse RM, Williams GC (1996). Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (First ed.). New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-679-74674-4...
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Life history theory (section Darwinian fitness)
survival and reproduction, which in turn establishes an organism's level of Darwinian fitness. In life history theory, evolution works on the life stages of...
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making it ineffective. Evolutionary therapy relies on the notion that Darwinian evolution is the main reason behind lethality of late stage cancer and...
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Bateman's and Trivers's predictions and assumptions." A 2016 review confirmed Darwinian sex roles across the animal kingdom, concluding that "sexual selection...
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and Evolution (21) 296:302 Gayon, J. (2010) Sexual selection: Another Darwinian process. Comptes Rendus Biologies (333) 134:144 Neyman, J (1934). "On...
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15, 2014. Sanderson, S.K. (2001). The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective US: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. p. 179...
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original on 2006-10-06. Simonton, Dean Keith (1999). Origins of genius: Darwinian perspectives on creativity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512879-6...
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provides an updated perspective on this view in his book, Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on creativity. In 1927, Alfred North Whitehead gave the Gifford...
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controversy remains unresolved. Adopting a compromise position, one school of Darwinian thought sets out from the fact that the mean length of the human menstrual...
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of neuroscience terminology and concepts to plants is appropriate, the Darwinian idea of the root tip of plants functioning as a "brain-like" organ (together...
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functionalism, an expansive approach to psychology that underlined the Darwinian idea of a behavior's usefulness to the individual. In 1890, James wrote...
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"Learning patterns and pattern sequences by self-organizing nets of threshold elements". IEEE Transactions. C (21): 1197–1206. Church, A. (1936). "An...
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fascination with science, including Einstein's theory of relativity and Darwinian evolution, has been noted by admirers of her art. She turned with equal...
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ISBN 978-0-88192-667-5.[page needed] See: Niles Eldredge, Time Frames: Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria, 1986, Heinemann ISBN 0-434-22610-6...
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