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Virus evolution

...3). Evolution experiments with microorganisms: the dynamics and genetic bases of adaptation. Nat. Rev. Genet. 4: 457-469....

Sociobiology

...ions. For example, including the complete genetic dynamics of in- and outbreeding might lead to completely different conclusions in the above-mentioned theories of the adaptive nature of racism. Also, it is widely known in the scientific community that when a certain outcome of research is expected or prefe...

Population dynamics

Population dynamics is the study of marginal and long-term changes in... processes influencing those changes. Population dynamics is the dominant branch of mathematical biology , which has a history of more than 200 years. The ea...

Population

...de variety of ways and disciplines. In population dynamics , size, age and sex structure, mortality, reproductive behaviour, and growth of a population are studied. Demography is the study of human population dynamics. Other aspects are studied in sociology , economics , and geography . Plant and an...

Metapopulation

...Levins in 1969 to describe a model of population dynamics of insect pests in agricultural fields, but the id...n conjunction with the development of source-sink dynamics emphasis the importance of connectivity between seemingly isolated populations. Although no one p...

Mathematical biology

... mathematical model , morphometrics , population dynamics , population genetics , theoretical biology . External links Society for Mathematical Biology European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Centre for Mathematical Biology at Oxford University Mathematical Biology at the...

Human

...d to the optimal size of a hunting party. Group dynamics and peer pressure may substantially influence the behaviour of group members. (See also Asch conformity experiments .) Larger groups of humans can be unified by notions of common ancestry ( tribes , ethnicities , nations ) or common geographic...

Fitness landscape

...eering or logistics problems) by imitating the dynamics of biological evolution. For example, a delivery truck with a number of destination addresses can take a large variety of different routes, but only very few will result in a short driving time. In order to use evolutionary optimization, one has to ...

Experimental evolution

...3). Evolution experiments with microorganisms: the dynamics and genetic bases of adaptation. Nature Reviews Genetics 4 , 457-469. R. E. Lenski, M. R. Rose, S. C. Simpson, and S. C. Tadler (1991). Long-term experimental evolution in Escherichia coli . I. Adaptation and divergence during 2,000 generations...

Digital organism

...igital organisms are used as a tool to study the dynamics of Darwinian evolution , and to test or verify specific hypotheses or mathematical models of evolution. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Systems for digital organisms research 3 External links 4 Further rea...

Biochemistry

...c labelling , electron microscopy and molecular dynamics simulations. These techniques allowed for the discovery and detailed analysis of many molecules and metabolic pathways of the cell , such as glycolysis and the Krebs cycle (citric acid cycle). Today, the findings of biochemistry are used in ...

Biodiversity

...sses such as mutations, gene exchanges, and genome dynamics that occur at the DNA level and generate evolution. For biologists , biodiversity is the diversity of populations of organisms and species, but also the way these organisms function. Organisms appear and disappear; sites are colonized by organism...

Adaptive radiation

...evonian period , about 300 million years ago. The dynamics of adaptive radiation is such that, within a relatively short time, many species derive from a single or a few ancestor species. From this large number of genetic combinations, only a few can survive on long term. After the rapid development of many ...