And here (free): jhiblog.org/2017/11/13/w...
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@gregpriest.bsky.socialAnd here (free): jhiblog.org/2017/11/13/w...
@gregpriest.bsky.socialIndeed, years before Genealogy of Morals, Darwin had argued that our moral principles had evolved from social instincts.
I wrote about that here (paywall): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/676147/pdf
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@theramseylab.bsky.socialGreat episode on animal tool use by @auersperga.bsky.social!
This is a topic we care deeply about. In a recent 📄, we propose a taxonomy of different forms of tool use, and discuss how the ‘tooling’ framework fits with traditional accounts: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@andrejpaleo.bsky.socialA new "Journal of Statistical Ecology" was just launched. They searching for contributions!
"Its goals are to provide an academic journal at the interface between ecology and statistics, and to promote an ethical and inclusive open access publishing model"
jse.centre-mersenne.org
🧪 #Ecology #EvoBio
@andrejpaleo.bsky.socialArticle tackles the megabias of the diminishing soft-body preservation in the fossil record:
The explanation rests on the proposition, that it was caused by the proliferation of colagen enzyme diversity in bacteria and archaea.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
@andrejpaleo.bsky.socialWhaaat? Flightless bird ("Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis... from southeastern China") in the Jurassic? Dude you literally just learned to fly and you are immediately dropping this superpower.
Reminds me the story of limb loss in early tetrapods
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
@molbioevol.bsky.socialLiu et al. characterized the genomic landscape, functional impact, and evolutionary significance of structural variants in three closely related pine species, demonstrating the importance of SVs as a dimension of genomic diversity.
@molbioevol.bsky.socialLi & Liu quantified natural selection acting on metabolite abundance in yeast, finding that approximately 28.58% of metabolites were inferred to be potentially under directional selection.
@molbioevol.bsky.socialAsaeda et al. show that functional divergence between somatic- and testis-type CYC proteins in Buergeria frogs is at least partly due to a phenylalanine-to-tyrosine substitution.
@molbioevol.bsky.socialMurugesan et al. provide very little support for the role of DNA methylation in driving differences in the transcriptional profiles of the two seasonal wing forms of Bicyclus anynana butterflies and in wing metamorphosis.
@andrejpaleo.bsky.socialWhat a wonderful reconstruction. Two alien-looking stem crocodiles enjoying rather unusual prey -- relatives of Archosaurs--turtles. Reminds us that the evolution of crocodiles was dynamic and current forms cover small portion of their diversity.
doi.org/10.1017/jpa....
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
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@alisabokulich.bsky.socialThe submission deadline for the International Society for the History, Philosophy & Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) 2027 conference in Argentina has been extended to *October 29th, 2026*
#HPS #STS #HPBio #EvoBio
congressin.com/e/ishpssb202...
@molbioevol.bsky.socialHale, @coxevolab.bsky.social et al. find that male–female expression imbalance on the X chromosome is widespread across phrynosomatid lizards.
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
📷 Matthew Hale
This study is featured on the cover of the October issue of MBE.
@molbioevol.bsky.socialGenerally, introns shorter than ∼30 bp are considered absent from animals. Hadjez et al. show that such ultra-short introns evolved independently at least twice in animals, in two parasitic lineages.
@molbioevol.bsky.social@euantheyoung.bsky.social et al. show that the role of life-history trade-offs in shaping estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer risk in European populations appears, at most, small.
@andrejpaleo.bsky.socialA new study by Andrii Rozhok, Niles Eldredge, and James DeGregori which presents a novel population genetic mechanism of evolution—the directional selection (of deviating forms) also selects, as a dynamic spandrel, higher mutation rate forms!
🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@molbioevol.bsky.socialLaumer, @prashantpsharma.bsky.social et al. examined the incidence of Pax family genes across chelicerate phylogeny and interrogated the expression and function of Pax2 and Pax6 homologs in the daddy-longlegs Phalangium opilio.
