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Nebulae are those star nurseries familiar through the fabulous Hubble images like the one above. Languages are also born – indeed every language is reborn, quite literally in the nursery. In my new book The Interaction Engine, just like the astronomers I turn the focus not onto language itself but onto the systems that gave […]
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The relationship of mathematics to biology is fascinating. Understanding why anti-evolutionist arguments fail can help us think clearly about this relationship.
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In my book I trace the history of narrative phylogenetics—the science of evolutionary storytelling—from its pre-evolutionary roots to the present day. I outline the conceptual shifts involved in transforming a static view of nature into a dynamic view, where the branching evolutionary relationships between taxa are understood to be the products of the linear descent and divergence of evolving lineages. I discuss the enduring challenges of what I call lineage thinking, which involves weaving linear evolutionary narratives with branching evidence.
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The essence of biological complexity is communication - a transmission of information between the component parts of an association. But what is the nature of this information and how do genomes co-operate to form a complex web?
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Complexity is all about the evolution of the possible. I initially planned a simple account of the physical properties of DNA but I soon realised that that the concepts of DNA as an informational codescript, the nature of information itself and the rise of biological complexity are intextricably intertwined. The final incarnation is very far from the book I'd initially conceived but is an amalgam of an intellectual journey that took me to places of whose existence I was previously unaware.
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Wallace Arthur, author of Understanding Evo-Devo, sheds light on the way in which radically new animal forms arise in the course of evolution
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"Why do birds have wings?" "Why do eagles have wings?" "Why do penguins have wings?" "Why do ostriches have wings...?"
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In his fifth post, Wallace Arthur, author of Evolving Animals (2014) explores 'evolutionary pattern' and how it impacts on 'our place' in the understanding of evolution.
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