Project News

December 30
Genes that are Used Together are More Likely to be Fused Together in Evolution by Mutational Mechanisms: A Bioinformatic Test of the Used-Fused Hypothesis

Three members of the “Mutation rates, variational specificity, and long-term directionality in the genome” project wrote the Open Access Evolutionary Biology article, “Genes that are Used Together are More Likely to be Fused Together in Evolution by Mutational Mechanisms: A Bioinformatic Test of the Used-Fused Hypothesis.”

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December 29
Dispersal and plant arrangement condition the timing and magnitude of coffee rust infection

Mariana Benítez, a member of Stuart Newman’s “Cellular agency in multicellular development and cancer” project, contributed to the Ecological Modelling article, “Dispersal and plant arrangement condition the timing and magnitude of coffee rust infection.”

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December 28
A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection

Pierrick Bourrat, PI of the “Transitions in individuality: from ecology to teleonomy” project, wrote the Open Access article “A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection” in Biological Theory.

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December 20
Resilience of countries to COVID-19 correlated with trust

Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute and part of the “Chance versus Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres” project, contributed to the Open Access Scientific Reports article, “Resilience of countries to COVID-19 correlated with trust.”

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December 19
On hemianopsia, vision and adaptive reactions in organism’s pathological states

Emiliano Sfara, a member of the "An Organizational Account of Ecological Functions" project, wrote "On hemianopsia, vision and adaptive reactions in organism’s pathological states" recently published in Dialectical Systems.

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