Mark E Olson,Alfonso Arroyo-Santos
Mark E Olson
Some adaptationist explanations are regarded as maximally solid and others fanciful just-so stories. Just-so stories are explanations based on very little evidence. Lack of evidence leads to circular-sounding reasoning: "this trait was shap...
PROMOTING RESILIENCE [0.03%]
增强韧性
Eric Desjardins,Gillian Barker,Zoë Lindo et al.
Eric Desjardins et al.
Broadening contingents of ecologists and environmental scientists have recently begun to promote ecological resilience both as a conceptual framework and as a practical goal. As some critics have noted, this growing interest has brought wit...
THALIACEANS, THE NEGLECTED PELAGIC RELATIVES OF ASCIDIANS: A DEVELOPMENTAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ENIGMA [0.03%]
被遗忘的浮游动物羽瓶介的亲缘生物：一个有待破解的发展与进化之谜
Jacques Piette,Patrick Lemaire
Jacques Piette
Most developmental biologists equate tunicates to the sessile ascidians, including Ciona intestinalis, and the pelagic appendicularians, in particular Oikopleura dioica. However, there exists a third group of tunicates with a pelagic lifest...
Where does cognition occur: in one's head or in one's embodied/extended environment? [0.03%]
认知发生在哪儿：在人的大脑里还是在其身体力行的/被延展的环境里？
Paul E Tibbetts
Paul E Tibbetts
Turning points in science occur when an issue has reached maturity, when a critical mass of new facts cries out for a new synthesis, and when there is a general sense of urgency to reconsider basic assumptions" (von der Malsburg et al. 2010...
Blood, bulbs, and bunodonts: on evolutionary ecology and the diets of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and early Homo [0.03%]
血、块茎和凸齿：关于阿迪帕瑟卡、南方古猿和早期能人进化生态学与饮食结构的思考
Ken Sayers,C Owen Lovejoy
Ken Sayers
Beginning with Darwin, some have argued that predation on other vertebrates dates to the earliest stages of hominid evolution, and can explain many uniquely human anatomical and behavioral characters. Other recent workers have focused inste...
Simon P Lailvaux,Jerry F Husak
Simon P Lailvaux
For almost 40 years, studies of whole-organism performance have formed a cornerstone of evolutionary physiology. Although its utility as a heuristic guide is beyond question, and we have learned much about morphological evolution from its a...
Modeling evolution using the probability of fixation: history and implications [0.03%]
利用固定概率模拟进化：历史及影响分析
David M McCandlish,Arlin Stoltzfus
David M McCandlish
Many models of evolution calculate the rate of evolution by multiplying the rate at which new mutations originate within a population by a probability of fixation. Here we review the historical origins, contemporary applications, and evolut...
Ulfat I Baig,Bharati J Bhadbhade,Milind G Watve
Ulfat I Baig
Several unresolved issues, paradoxes, and information voids characterize the field of evolution of aging. The recent discovery of aging-like phenomenon in Escherichia coli, marked by asymmetric segregation of damaged components, particularl...
Ecological and scaling analysis of the energy expenditure of rest, activity, flight, and evaporative water loss in Passeriformes and non-Passeriformes in relation to seasonal migrations and to the occupation of boreal stations in high and moderate latitudes [0.03%]
关于迁徙和高纬度地区候鸟静息、活动、飞行及蒸发耗水的生态与量级分析：雀形目与其他非雀形目鸟类之间的对比研究
Valery M Gavrilov
Valery M Gavrilov
A unified system of bioenergetic parameters that describe thermal regulation and energy metabolism in many passerine and non-passerine species has been developed. These parameters have been analyzed as functions of ambient temperature, and ...