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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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In this article, the authors explore what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history and find that it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived.Abstract:
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived-a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.read more
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
TL;DR: Complexity theory is one of the most controversial areas of current scientific research as mentioned in this paper, which suggests that there are hidden tendencies in nature to select ordered states, even when statistically they are vastly outnumbered by chaotic possibilities.
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Clonal Heterogeneity and Tumor Evolution: Past, Present, and the Future.
TL;DR: It is suggested that bold approaches to drug development, harnessing the adaptive properties of the immune-microenvironment while limiting those of the tumor, combined with advances in clinical trial-design, will improve patient outcome.
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Participatory learning for sustainable agriculture
TL;DR: The authors argue that the dominant scientific paradigm of positivism has served us well over three to four centuries, but it is not well suited to contexts where uncertainties are high, and problems are open to interpretation.
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Evolution experiments with microorganisms: the dynamics and genetic bases of adaptation.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the dynamics of evolutionary adaptation, the genetic bases of adaptation, tradeoffs and the environmental specificity of adaptation and the origin and evolutionary consequences of mutators.