A guest post by Eric Sawyer. Also check out Eric's own Scitable blog, Bio 2.0. 'Dissecting the next revolution in biology' We live in a world utterly and completely inundated with living things. You ...

Genetic algorithms borrow their name and principles from biological evolution, but can they help researchers discover the fundamentals of life? Evolution is one of the most widely known theories in ...

The seventh EO parameter is the selection pressure, often called tau in research literature, which is set to 0.40 in the demo. The selection pressure is used by the part of the algorithm that ...

The unexpected discovery of a new type of genetic variation suggests that natural selection -- the force that drives evolution -- is both more powerful and more complex than scientists have thought.

Australian and German researchers have collaborated to develop a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical notions of causality. Dr Alberto Peruzzo from RMIT University in Melbourne said ...

"Regressive evolution," or the reduction of traits over time, is the result of either natural selection or genetic drift, according to a study on cavefish by researchers at New York University's ...

Abstract: The evolution of sexual dimorphism involves an interaction between sex‐specific selection and a breakdown of genetic constraints that arise because the two sexes share a genome. We examined ...

This paper reconstructs the history of the introduction and use of iterative algorithms in conservation biology in the 1980s and early 1990s in order to prioritize areas for protection as nature ...