• Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory experiments or controlled field manipulations to explore evolutionary dynamics. Evolution may be observed...
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    The E. coli long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) is an ongoing study in experimental evolution begun by Richard Lenski at the University of California...
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    page on SourceForge. A slightly more recent (2010/2011) experimental installer for Evolution 3.0.2 is provided by openSUSE. Users have faced difficulties...
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  • Experimental evolution studies are a means of testing evolutionary theory under carefully designed, reproducible experiments. Given enough time, space...
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    ancestors. Such a passage of time allows both divergent and convergent evolution time to mimic similarities and accumulate differences between groups of...
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    Directed evolution is used both for protein engineering as an alternative to rationally designing modified proteins, as well as for experimental evolution studies...
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    Carnegie Institution of Washington established the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor on an adjacent parcel. In 1921, the station...
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    way is by approaches, such as field biology, theoretical biology, experimental evolution, and paleontology. These alternative ways of dividing up the subject...
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    Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution), alternatively called evolutionary creationism, is a view that God acts...
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    the evolution of microorganisms is particularly important to evolutionary research since their rapid reproduction allows the study of experimental evolution...
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    Recurring cultural, political, and theological rejection of evolution by religious groups exists regarding the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and...
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    Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous...
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    Jewish views on evolution includes a continuum of views about the theory of evolution, experimental evolution, the origin of life, the age of the universe...
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    PMC 1347346. PMID 16428417. Wichman HA, Brown CJ (August 2010). "Experimental evolution of viruses: Microviridae as a model system". Philosophical Transactions...
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  • Parallel evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response...
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    evolution is used within the transhumanist community to refer to the idea of applying the principles of directed evolution and experimental evolution...
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    Vertebrate Biomechanics and Evolution ed. Bels VL, Gasc JP, Casinos A. PDF Garland, T. Jr., Rose MR, eds. (2009). Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and...
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  • use of phylogenetic comparative methods. Selective breeding and experimental evolution approaches are also being used more frequently. Conceptually and...
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    Divergent evolution or divergent selection is the accumulation of differences between closely related populations within a species, sometimes leading...
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  • regard to their natural relationships and the study of variation and the evolution of taxa". In 1970, Michener et al. defined "systematic biology" and "taxonomy"...
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    lines of descent and increases mean fitness. However, in a long-term experimental study of C. reinhardtii, evidence was obtained that contradicted this...
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  • microevolution is evolution occurring within the population(s) of a single species. In other words, microevolution is the scale of evolution that is limited...
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    the dairy environment was reproduced in the laboratory through experimental evolution of a plant isolate that was cultivated in milk for a prolonged period...
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  • gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential...
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    opportunity can be the loss of antagonists (competitors or predators), the evolution of a key innovation, or dispersal to a new environment. Any one of these...
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  • through stages resembling or representing successive adult stages in the evolution of the animal's remote ancestors (phylogeny). It was formulated in the...
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  • "Phenotypic plasticity, sexual selection and the evolution of colour patterns". The Journal of Experimental Biology. 209 (12): 2368–2376. doi:10.1242/jeb...
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    bulb burning since 1901 The E. coli long-term evolution experiment (LTEE), a study in experimental evolution running since 1988. Webb, Jonathan (26 July...
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    evolution is used within the transhumanist community to refer to the idea of applying the principles of directed evolution and experimental evolution...
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    Richard E. (2008). "Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli". Proceedings of the...
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