#EvolutionaryBiology

Peer Community JournalNow published in Peer Community Journal, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarybiology</a> section: Unraveling genetic load dynamics during biological invasion: insights from two invasive insect species <a href="https://buff.ly/QkF7OaD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/QkF7OaD</a>

Planetary EcologistExtinction event (Evolutionary biology 🧬)An extinction event is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp fall in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. It occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the background extinction r...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExtinctionEvent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtinctionEvent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExtinctionEvents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtinctionEvents</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaturalDisasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NaturalDisasters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HypotheticalImpactEvents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HypotheticalImpactEvents</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MeteorologicalHypotheses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MeteorologicalHypotheses</a>

Peer Community JournalNow published in Peer Community Journal, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarybiology</a> section: Detection of domestication signals through the analysis of the full distribution of fitness effects <a href="https://buff.ly/TOSIK1N" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/TOSIK1N</a>

Seth G.I finally finished "The Blind Watchmaker" by Dawkins, and while I definitely won't remember all the details, I absolutely have a better holistic understanding of <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> and <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a>. It feels nice learning all the things I should have learned as a kid. <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

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readbeanicecreamTiny Sparks in Water May Have Triggered Life on Earth, a New Study Suggests<a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a64211848/microlightning-life-on-earth/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a64211848/microlightning-life-on-earth/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/planetaryscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planetaryscience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarybiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/earthscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#earthscience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#earth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originoflife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#originoflife</a>

Lucas C. WheelerNew <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#preprint</a> on work with Dr. Stacey Smith. We followed up on previous work to identify the transcription factor largely responsible for the shift to red flower color in Iochroma. We found a subgroup 7 Myb TF related to Myb12 that is tightly associated with variation in floral pigmentation in a backcross, strongly co-expressed with the flavonoid pathway branching enzyme F3'H, and drastically down-regulated in plants producing red pigments. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plants</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a> <a href="https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/8748/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/8748/</a>

Planetary EcologistPaleontology (Earth sciences 🌍)Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the history of life in the geologic past. It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments. Paleontological observations have been documented as far back as the 5th century BC. The s...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fossils</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EarthSciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EarthSciences</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoricalGeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalGeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a>

Peer Community JournalNow published in Peer Community Journal, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarybiology</a> section: Discordant population structure inferred from male- and female-type mtDNAs from Macoma balthica, a bivalve species characterized by doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria <a href="https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.529/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.529/</a>

Planetary EcologistMicrobial population biology (Evolutionary biology 🧬)Microbial population biology is the application of the principles of population biology to microorganisms.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_population_biology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_population_biology</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MicrobialPopulationBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicrobialPopulationBiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PopulationEcology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PopulationEcology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnvironmentalMicrobiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalMicrobiology</a>

Joël Métreau"L’une des causes fondamentales est la longue histoire du christianisme évangélique aux Etats-Unis. L’Amérique est une sorte de dépotoir pour fanatiques religieux. Des versions étranges de la religion protestante et une fraction importante de la population américaine ne croient pas à l’évolution biologique" <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/RobertProctor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertProctor</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/interview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interview</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/lemonde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lemonde</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarybiology</a> <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/03/09/robert-proctor-historien-des-sciences-nous-vivons-un-age-d-or-de-l-ignorance_6577603_1650684.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/03/09/robert-proctor-historien-des-sciences-nous-vivons-un-age-d-or-de-l-ignorance_6577603_1650684.html</a>

Planetary EcologistGenetic assimilation (Evolutionary biology 🧬)Genetic assimilation is a process described by Conrad H. Waddington by which a phenotype originally produced in response to an environmental condition, such as exposure to a teratogen, later becomes genetically encoded via artificial selection or natural selection. Despite superficial appearances, this does not require the inheritance of acqu...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_assimilation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_assimilation</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeneticAssimilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneticAssimilation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Selection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Selection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a>

readbeanicecreamFossil Jackpot! 500,000-Year-Old Ice Age Graveyard Discovered in Florida River<a href="https://scitechdaily.com/fossil-jackpot-500000-year-old-ice-age-graveyard-discovered-in-florida-river/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scitechdaily.com/fossil-jackpot-500000-year-old-ice-age-graveyard-discovered-in-florida-river/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleontology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vertabrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vertabrate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mammals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarybiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#florida</a>

Big Biology📚Big Biology Library!📚🐦Trevor Price is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. Check out his most recent papers!<a href="https://www.bigbiology.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bigbiology.org</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scicomm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencecommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencecommunication</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarybiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a>

Tanja SlotteVery happy and proud of Yannick Woudstra, who just won a MSCA postdoctoral fellowship with my lab at Stockholm University as a host! His project will investigate the evolutionary fate of pollen in asexual plants, using dandelions (Taraxacum) as a model. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/evolgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolgen</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HorizonEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HorizonEU</a>

readbeanicecreamScientists investigating human sperm competition stumble upon an intriguing paradox<a href="https://www.psypost.org/scientists-investigating-human-sperm-competition-stumble-upon-an-intriguing-paradox/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.psypost.org/scientists-investigating-human-sperm-competition-stumble-upon-an-intriguing-paradox/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reproductivehealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reproductivehealth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarybiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolutionarypsychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarypsychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/menshealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#menshealth</a>

formuchdeliberationThe Conversation: Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted…A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare... <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionarybiology</a><a href="https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/the-conversation-evolving-intelligent-life-took-billions-of-years-%e2%88%92-but-it-may-not-have-been-as-unlikely-as-many-scientists-predicted/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/the-conversation-evolving-intelligent-life-took-billions-of-years-%e2%88%92-but-it-may-not-have-been-as-unlikely-as-many-scientists-predicted/</a>

Erik SvenssonHappy to share our latest pre-print: a historical review of a century of theories of balancing selection. A great international collaboration funded by <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/eseb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eseb</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/population_genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#population_genetics</a> <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637871v1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637871v1</a>

Marc Robinson-RechaviFirst keynote <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biology25</a>: Susana Coelho. Brown algae are the youngest complex multicellular group, they resemble plants but are an independent evolution of multicellularity, with many convergent features with plants: apical meristems, long range transport (≈ phloem), etc. Brown algae, like animals and plants, have converged towards an hourglass pattern of development (evolutionary conservation of mid-embryonic development). <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Algae</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a>

Marc Robinson-RechaviExcellent Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender by three scientific societies of evolutionary biology: <a href="https://www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2025/2/7/letter-to-the-us-president-and-congress-on-the-scientific-understanding-of-sex-and-gender/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2025/2/7/letter-to-the-us-president-and-congress-on-the-scientific-understanding-of-sex-and-gender/</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/SSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SSE</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ASN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ASN</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AmNat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNat</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/SSB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SSB</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/SystematicBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystematicBiology</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EvolutionaryBiology</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> (h/t <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/katymontgomerie.com/post/3lhth5ntfkk2d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/katymontgomerie.com/post/3lhth5ntfkk2d</a>)

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