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Subjects / keywords: evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, palaeontology; Science: Biology (General): Evolution

If today's human lived alongside other less endowed human species than ours (some sort of Neanderthal or Homo habilis) we would respect their differences and not consider them beings that we can use for our service. How...

Computational evolutionary biology, statistical phylogenetics and coalescent-based population genetics are becoming increasingly central to the analysis and understanding of molecular sequence data. We present the Bayesi...

The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, end...

Just over one hundred and thirty years ago Charles Darwin, in The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), developed remarkably accurate conclusions about man's ancestry, based on a review of general compa...

In this 1982 book, the theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy is r...

Metabolism provides a basis for using first principles of physics, chemistry, and biology to link the biology of individual organisms to the ecology of populations, communities, and ecosystems. Metabolic rate, the rate a...

Genetic algorithms have been used in science and engineering as adaptive algorithms for solving practical problems and as computational models of natural evolutionary systems. This brief, accessible introduction describe...

Comparative analysis of molecular sequence data is essential for reconstructing the evolutionary histories of species and inferring the nature and extent of selective forces shaping the evolution of genes and species. He...

Understanding the evolutionary history of living organisms is a central problem in biology. Until recently the ability to infer evolutionary relationships was limited by the amount of DNA sequence data available, but new...

Subjects / keywords: Evolutionary biology; Human evolutionary genetics; Genetics; Biology; Molecular genetics; Computational biology; Genome; Gene

Subjects / keywords: evolutionary biology; Science: Biology (General)

Subjects / keywords: evolutionary biology, genomics, molecular biology; Science: Biology (General): Evolution; Science: Biology (General): Genetics

Subjects / keywords: evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics, evolutionary dynamics, phylogenetics, adaptation; Science: Biology (General): Evolution

Subjects / keywords: Maximum likelihood; Biology; Maximum parsimony; Tree (set theory); Phylogenetic tree; Sequence (biology); Evolutionary biology; Statistics; Tree rearrangement; Mathematics; Genetics; Clade

BACKGROUND: The evolutionary analysis of molecular sequence variation is a statistical enterprise. This is reflected in the increased use of probabilistic models for phylogenetic inference, multiple sequence alignment, a...

The evolutionary history of a set of taxa is usually represented by a phylogenetic tree, and this model has greatly facilitated the discussion and testing of hypotheses. However, it is well known that more complex evolut...

We present the latest version of the Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (Mega) software, which contains many sophisticated methods and tools for phylogenomics and phylomedicine. In this major upgrade, Mega has been...

As the amount of information in biology expands dramatically, it becomes increasingly important for textbooks to distill the vast amount of scientific knowledge into concise principles and enduring concepts.As with previ...

Summary 1. Here, I present a new, multifunctional phylogenetics package, phytools, for the R statistical computing environment. 2. The focus of the package is on methods for phylogenetic comparative biology; however, it ...

Subjects / keywords: Transversion; Biology; Nucleotide; Genetics; Molecular evolution; Divergence (linguistics); Rate of evolution; Type (biology); Evolutionary biology; Phylogenetic tree; Gene; Mutation

Subjects / keywords: Biology; Systems biology; Function (biology); Computational biology; Key (lock); Conceptual framework; Cognitive science; Evolutionary biology; Ecology; Epistemology; Philosophy; Psychology

Subjects / keywords: Oxidative stress; Ageing; Reactive oxygen species; Life span; Oxygen; Biology; Chemistry; Cell biology; Evolutionary biology; Biochemistry; Genetics; Organic chemistry

UNLABELLED: Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution (APE) is a package written in the R language for use in molecular evolution and phylogenetics. APE provides both utility functions for reading and writing data and mani...