DEFB126 and the Evolution of Male Infertility By Bernard Crespi Darwin bravely asserted that the discovery of a common trait leading to reduced reproduction would falsify his theory of evolution by natural selection. A new paper by Tollner et al. (2011) in Science...
Fitness recovery and compensatory evolution in natural mutant lines of C. Elegans. By Estes S, Phillips PC, Denver DR. Evolution. 2011 Aug;65(8):2335-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01276.x. Epub 2011 Apr 11. Abstract Deleterious mutation accumulation plays a...
Mol Biol Evol (2011) doi: 10.1093/molbev/msr134 First published online: May 18, 2011 By John Steven Torday and Virender Kumar Rehan Abstract In contrast to the conventional use of genes to determine the evolution of phenotypes, we have functionally integrated...
Forty years on from Nixon’s war, cancer research ‘evolves’ by Nadia Drake in Nature Medicine doi:10.1038/nm0711-757 (Not open access) Published online 07 July 2011 Up a tree: Cancer researchers look to Darwin to improve tumor...
Nicole Bender organized an Evolutionary Medicine symposium that was presented at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting in Montpellier, France last week. Abstracts of the talks are below. Session 28. Symposium: Evolutionary medicine: challenges...
