Solving global challenges in food security, emerging diseases and biodiversity loss requires evolutionary thinking, argues a new study. For the first time, an international team of nine scientists has ...

An evolutionary analysis of public health data during a major disease outbreak, such as bird flu, E. coli contamination of food or the current Ebola outbreak could help the emergency services plan ...

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), we still do not know much about the early evolutionary history and order of ...

Evolutionary developmental theories in biology see the processes and organization of organisms as crucial for understanding the dynamic behavior of organic evolution. Darwinian forces are seen as ...

With all the excitement over neural networks and deep-learning techniques, it’s easy to imagine that the world of computer science consists of little else. Neural networks, after all, have begun to ...

The application of Darwinian ideas to the human experience has found itself riddled with controversy. People have argued that this approach to understanding behavior is politically incorrect, sexist, ...

Editor’s Note: Boris Shiklo is CTO at ScienceSoft, where he is responsible for the company's long-term technological vision and innovation strategies. Under his supervision, the company's development ...

When a feline gets threatened, it engages in a suite of behaviors that seem to have the purpose of facilitating its own survival. A cat will growl angrily. It will arch its back. And even the fur on ...

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