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Richard A. Boyle, Edmund R. R. Moody, Gunnar Babcock, Daniel W. McShea + 3 more
'Daniel W. McShea' 'Sandra Álvarez-Carretero' 'Timothy M. Lenton' 'Philip C. J. Donoghue'] Title: Significance Darwinian evolution is life’s fundamental sense-making principle and Earth is the only (known) planetary/climatic system capable of supporting life. However, the question of whether Darwinian evolution tends…
Andy Gardner, Stuart A. West, Ashleigh S. Griffin, Wayne Getz
The ability of bacteria to evolve resistance to antibiotics has been much reported in recent years. It is less well-known that within populations of bacteria there are cells which are resistant due to a non-inherited phenotypic switch to a slow-growing state. Although such ‘persister’ cells are receiving increasing…
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We introduce Stability-Driven Assembly (SDA) as a minimal, non-equilibrium framework in which stochastic interactions combined with differential persistence generate endogenous selection without genes, replication, or predefined fitness functions. In SDA, longer-lived patterns accumulate in the population, biasing…
Peter D. Roopnarine
The Phanerozoic fossil record can be organized as a nested set of persistent paleoecological units, ranging from paleocommunities to the Evolutionary Faunas. This paper argues that the basis for ecological persistence on geological timescales is rooted in the robustness of ecological communities, that is, the…
Manuela Reuter, Michael Sieber, Octavio Reyes-Matte, Christina Vasileiou + 4 more
The evolutionary success of lytic bacteriophages depends on key life-history traits, including adsorption, lysis time, burst size, and persistence in the environment. However, how these traits evolve to allow adaptation to different environments remains poorly understood. Here, we explored this question in ΦX174…
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Biological systems like long-lived clonal organisms, holobionts and clades challenge traditional evolutionary thinking since they adapt without populations or reproduction. This paper aims to provide an overarching theoretical framework which encompasses standard Darwinian evolution as well as other processes of…
Sneha Aenugu, John P. O’Doherty, Peter E. Latham
Extended goals necessitate extended commitment. We address how humans select between multiple goals in a temporally extended setting. We probe whether humans engage in prospective valuation of goals by estimating which goals are likely to yield future success and choosing those, or whether they rely on a less optimal…
Mara E. Erickson, Christine Found-Jackson, Mark S. Boyce, David L. Roberts
'David L. Roberts'] Population persistence is a direct measure of the viability of a population. Monitoring the distribution of declining populations or subpopulations over time can yield estimates of persistence, which we show can be modeled as a latent selection difference (LSD) contrasting attributes of sites where…
Bryan James, Collin Ward, Mark Hahn, Steven Thorpe + 1 more
While plastic pollution threatens ecosystems and human health, the use of plastic products continues to increase. Limiting its harm requires strategies when designing plastic products informed by the threats plastics pose to the environment. Thus, we developed a sustainability metric for the eco-design of plastic…
Jaroslav Flegr, Jan Toman
Natural selection is considered to be the main process that drives biological evolution. It requires selected entities to originate dependent upon one another by the means of reproduction or copying, and for the progeny to inherit the qualities of their ancestors. However, natural selection is a manifestation of a more…
Benjamin J. Ridenhour, Genevieve A. Metzger, Michael France, Karol Gliniewicz + 3 more
The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance is a crisis in health care today. Antibiotic resistance is often horizontally transferred to susceptible bacteria by means of multi-drug resistance plasmids that may or may not persist in the absence of antibiotics. Because bacterial pathogens often grow as biofilms…
Zeki Doruk Erden
Sexual selection is among the most pervasive and costly features of biological reproduction, reaching its greatest elaboration in lineages of greater complexity and capability—costs that signal a structural function not adequately accounted for by only the existing explanations focused on immediate adaptive benefits. I…
Taisei Kii, Kentaro Yaji, Hiroshi Teramoto, Kikuo FUJITA
population diversity Authors: ['Taisei Kii' 'Kentaro Yaji' 'Hiroshi Teramoto' 'Kikuo FUJITA'] This paper proposes a selection strategy for enhancing population diversity in data-driven topology design (DDTD), a topology optimization framework based on evolutionary algorithms (EAs) using a deep generative model. While…
Matthew Bailey, Mark Wilson
One of the critical tools of persistent homology is the persistence diagram. We demonstrate the applicability of a persistence diagram showing the existence of topological features (here rings in a 2D network) generated over time instead of space as a tool to analyse trajectories of biological networks. We show how the…
Matteo Smerlak, Ahmed Youssef
Selection, the tendency of some traits to become more frequent than others in a population under the influence of some (natural or artificial) agency, is a key component of Darwinian evolution and countless other natural and social phenomena. Yet a general theory of selection, analogous to the Fisher-Tippett-Gnedenko…
Brittany Story, Biswajit Sadhu, Henry Adams, Aurora Clark
Recent work (J. Chem. Phys. 154, 114114) has demonstrated that sublevelset persistent homology provides a compact representation of the complex features of an energy landscape in $3N$-dimensions. This includes information about all transition paths between local minima (connected by critical points of index > 1), and…
Zhenghong Chen
Persistent homology, building its foundation on homology theory, has been successfully applied various fields containing computation of topology. Here, we derive and implement persistent homology theory to specefic topological spaces with G-invariant covering, whereby persistence over quotient space can be canonically…
Abhishek Sharma, Dániel Czégel, Michael Lachmann, Christopher P. Kempes + 2 more
'Christopher P. Kempes' 'Sara I. Walker' 'Leroy Cronin'] Scientists have grappled with reconciling biological evolution1,2 with the immutable laws of the Universe defined by physics. These laws underpin life’s origin, evolution and the development of human culture and technology, yet they do not predict the emergence…