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GenomeBiolEvol<p>Rivas-Santisteban, Yubero &amp; Hurst analysed gene expression in E. coli and S. cerevisiae to revisit the extended complexity hypothesis on protein rate of evolution; results contradict models supporting slower evolution of cytoplasmic proteins.</p><p>🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf126</p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/genome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genome</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MattDillahunty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MattDillahunty</span></a> DEMOLISHES <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> on Nonsense <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Logic</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Ertgs4-iOSQ?si=49PlUo2B9J96Bq2w&amp;t=31" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Ertgs4-iOSQ?si=49PlUo</span><span class="invisible">2B9J96Bq2w&amp;t=31</span></a></p><p>In this video, we explore Matt’s compelling challenge to the idea that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> requires <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bloodsacrifice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bloodsacrifice</span></a>. He dives into the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ancient</span></a> roots of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sacrificialsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sacrificialsystems</span></a>—showing that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/rituals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rituals</span></a> involving blood were common across many <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BronzeAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BronzeAge</span></a> cultures, long before <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judaism</span></a> or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a>. But is that really what morality is built on? Modern research in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionarybiology</span></a> and <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a> suggests otherwise</p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”</p><p>The dark side of paleoanthropology.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PaleoAnthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoAnthropology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HumanOrigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanOrigins</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Hominins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hominins</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Toumai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toumai</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Sahelanthropus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sahelanthropus</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fossils</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/MichelBrunet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichelBrunet</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScientificControversy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificControversy</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ResearchIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchIntegrity</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PublicationEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicationEthics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/RobertoMacchiarelli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertoMacchiarelli</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Chad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chad</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AudeBergeret" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AudeBergeret</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/UniversityofPoitiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityofPoitiers</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/UniversiteDePoitiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversiteDePoitiers</span></a></p>
ivanfr<p>Judith Rosen is opening The First International Conferencia on Anticipatory Systems <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/bio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/philsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philsci</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Rosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rosen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/comp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/phy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/sci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sci</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/TheoryOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/psy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/epidemiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epidemiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/evo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionarybiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/evo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evo</span></a></p>
Henry Okonkwo<p>Pest control when rats evolve! Love + Robots <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animationvideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animationvideo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robots</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2053604/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2053604/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Local adaptation has a role in reducing vulnerability to climate change in a widespread Amazonian forest lizard <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Biomedicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biomedicine</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ConservationGenomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConservationGenomics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Cytogenetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cytogenetics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EvolutionaryEcology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryEcology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/general" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>general</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HumanGenetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGenetics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MolecularEvolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MolecularEvolution</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PlantGeneticsAndGenomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlantGeneticsAndGenomics</span></a></p>
Daniel Hoffmann🌻<p>An article in the Economist summarizes some of the problems with current <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> models: cheating (not mere hallucination) seems to be an emergent property in advanced models, see also <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07590" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2311.07590</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. </p><p>There are interesting parallels of AI model development with <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/evolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionaryBiology</span></a> if you are primed this way (not mentioned in the article): the AI model parameters define a kind of genome; the way in which the AI labs try to solve the alignment problem has a (natural) selection vibe; we clearly have populations and generations of models, probably with some heredity. These parallels make me a bit skeptical about our capability to contain this new breed because evolution often finds ways to evade whatever you throw at it.</p><p><a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/04/23/ai-models-can-learn-to-conceal-information-from-their-users" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">economist.com/science-and-tech</span><span class="invisible">nology/2025/04/23/ai-models-can-learn-to-conceal-information-from-their-users</span></a></p>
rsp<p>"Thus, calls for extending evolutionary theory or completely replacing it fall flat – no novel mechanisms of evolution have yet been discovered in almost 100 years."</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/a-resurrected-defence-of-beanbag-genetics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/a-resurrected-d</span><span class="invisible">efence-of-beanbag-genetics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a><br><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a></p>
Rich Bukowski<p>Spider-Monkeys and Spider-Man share more than swinging—they reveal how ancient brain systems are shaping tech’s future! </p><p>From primate to AI robots, my latest Reality Shifts piece explores how evolution drives spatial computing. </p><p>Watch the videos, read the full story. <a href="https://richardbukowski.substack.com/p/from-branch-to-byte" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">richardbukowski.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/from-branch-to-byte</span></a></p><p>Need a forecaster for your next brainstorming? </p><p>Let’s connect!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmergingTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmergingTechnology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpiderMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpiderMan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FutureOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureOfWork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FutureofEntertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureofEntertainment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deepmind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deepmind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robotics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brain</span></a></p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>I like Alex O'Connor (formerly the CosmicSkeptic, but softened since his militant atheist days), but as a biologist I was disappointed by this interview with Iain McGilchrist, a psychiatrist who takes an evo-neuro theory too far.</p><p>Introducing a divide of focussed vs wider attention of the left vs right brain, he says this is seen in science/logic vs religion/wonder.</p><p>🧵</p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=mzoBRy1ob7-XTS-M&amp;v=Q16ARIpxlPQ&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?si=mzoBRy1</span><span class="invisible">ob7-XTS-M&amp;v=Q16ARIpxlPQ&amp;feature=youtu.be</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/IainMcGilchrist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IainMcGilchrist</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/CosmicSkeptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CosmicSkeptic</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AlexOConnor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlexOConnor</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/YouTubePodcasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouTubePodcasting</span></a></p>
Peer Community Journal<p>Now published in Peer Community Journal, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionarybiology</span></a> section: Detection of domestication signals through the analysis of the full distribution of fitness effects <br><a href="https://buff.ly/TOSIK1N" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/TOSIK1N</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Seth G.<p>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" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> and <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a>. It feels nice learning all the things I should have learned as a kid. </p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Lucas C. Wheeler<p>New <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>preprint</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/8748/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view</span><span class="invisible">/8748/</span></a></p>
Peer Community Journal<p>Now published in Peer Community Journal, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionarybiology</span></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<br><a href="https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.529/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peercommunityjournal.org/artic</span><span class="invisible">les/10.24072/pcjournal.529/</span></a></p>
formuchdeliberation<p>The Conversation: Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted…</p><p>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" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionarybiology</span></a></p><p><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" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">formuchdeliberation.wordpress.</span><span class="invisible">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/</span></a></p>
Erik Svensson<p>Happy to share our latest pre-print: a historical review of a century of theories of balancing selection. </p><p>A great international collaboration funded by <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/eseb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eseb</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/population_genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>population_genetics</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637871v1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20</span><span class="invisible">25.02.12.637871v1</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>First keynote <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>Algae</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Excellent 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" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">evolutionsociety.org/news/disp</span><span class="invisible">lay/2025/2/7/letter-to-the-us-president-and-congress-on-the-scientific-understanding-of-sex-and-gender/</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/SSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSE</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ASN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ASN</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AmNat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmNat</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/SSB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSB</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/SystematicBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystematicBiology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvolutionaryBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvolutionaryBiology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <br>(h/t <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/katymontgomerie.com/post/3lhth5ntfkk2d" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/katymontgomer</span><span class="invisible">ie.com/post/3lhth5ntfkk2d</span></a>)</p>
readbeanicecream<p>Baboons may offer clues to early human social evolution</p><p><a href="https://www.earth.com/news/baboons-may-offer-clues-to-early-human-social-evolution/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">earth.com/news/baboons-may-off</span><span class="invisible">er-clues-to-early-human-social-evolution/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zoology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animalbehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animalbehavior</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/primates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>primates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionarybiology</span></a></p>
Andrew Steele<p>Proud to say I helped out a bit with this new video from Primer, simulating the evolution of aging with his lovable blobs!</p><p>If anyone asks me to explain how aging evolved (it’s surprisingly nuanced), I now have a great resource to share: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_JbJTeLZJs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=1_JbJTeLZJ</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/aging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aging</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionarybiology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ageing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ageing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/longevity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>longevity</span></a></p>