What would happen if a selection experiment was performed on thousands of communities of microbes based on some community-level function? Researchers from ESPCI Paris-PSL, College de France, and ...

Humans have a positive view of nature. But is this due to an approach we have learned while growing up, or is it something we are born with? The answer is "both," according to researchers at the ...

IT would be no exaggeration to say that holes could be picked in any theory of heredity as yet put forward. The problem is one of great difficulty and complexity, and when we think of the enormous ...

How to Construct an Organism -- Heredity from First Principles -- The Triumph of the Gene -- Monsters, Worms, and Rats -- The Nongenetic Inheritance Spectrum -- Evolution with Extended Heredity -- Why ...

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