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Evolutionary Biology
The mechanisms and history of biological evolution.
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- How did Delbrück's work distinguish random mutation from directed adaptation in bacteria?
- How did Paul Bosland selectively breed capsaicin out of the jalapeño while keeping its shape and flavour?
- How did Richard Wassersug and colleagues actually measure tadpole palatability?
- How did Stephen Jay Gould's dispute with strict adaptationists shape debates in evolutionary biology?
- How did Wilhelm Weinberg's independent derivation relate to Hardy's own work on the same principle?
- How did Wilson's monograph on ants become the standard reference in myrmecology?
- How did the discovery of Tiktaalik demonstrate the predictive power of evolutionary theory?
- How do traces of Denisovan DNA persist in modern populations like Melanesians and Tibetans today?
- How does directed evolution in the lab mimic natural selection to design new enzymes?
- How might nutrient-poor cave habitats explain the evolution of reversed genitalia in Neotrogla?
- How much more did lap dancers earn in tips during their fertile window compared to during menstruation?
- Under what conditions does the Hardy–Weinberg principle say allele frequencies remain constant across generations?
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- What claims in Wilson's 1975 book Sociobiology provoked such a hostile reception from colleagues?
- What did the Kansas State Board of Education actually change in its 1999 vote on evolution?
- What does the coelacanth's lack of dramatic evolutionary change over 350 million years suggest about its lineage?
- What does the finding suggest about whether human ovulation is truly 'concealed' or gives off subtle cues to others?
- What does the theory of punctuated equilibrium say about the pace of evolutionary change?
- What does this finding suggest about the biological versus cultural basis of human beauty standards?
- What happened to the Kansas board's decision after the 2000 election changed its majority?
- What is the connection between a tadpole's coloring, defenses, and how bad it tastes?
- What makes removing a dominant trait like capsaicin production a multi-generation breeding challenge?
- What misconception about dominant traits prompted Hardy to write his 1908 correction?
- What research did Ehrlich conduct on the coevolution of plants and their insect herbivores?
- What was distinctive about Gould's twenty-seven-year run of monthly essays for Natural History magazine?
- Why did genes discovered in fruit flies turn out to matter for understanding vertebrate development?
- Why did rational protein design keep failing before Frances Arnold's approach?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee compare scepticism about evolution to scepticism about gravity?
- Why does the difference in jump height between dog fleas and cat fleas remain unexplained by their evolutionary relationship to their hosts?
- Why does the fruit-fly circadian mechanism translate so directly to human biology?
- Why had heelwalkers gone unrecognised for decades despite being present in museum specimens and amber?
- Why is the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium considered the null hypothesis of population genetics?
- Why would a face-detection system evolve to favour false positives over false negatives?
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- Death of E.O. Wilson
- Death of Paul R. Ehrlich
- Death of Stephen Jay Gould
- Denisovan genome sequenced from fossil powder
- Hardy–Weinberg principle established
- Ig Nobel Prize in Biology
- Ig Nobel Prize in Biology
- Ig Nobel Prize in Biology
- Ig Nobel Prize in Biology
- Ig Nobel Prize in Economics
- Ig Nobel Prize in Interdisciplinary Research
- Ig Nobel Prize in Neuroscience
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- Ig Nobel Prize in Science Education
- Living coelacanth discovered off South Africa
- New insect order Mantophasmatodea described
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Tiktaalik roseae described — fish-tetrapod transitional fossil