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EXTRANUCLEAR INHERITANCE. "Extranuclear inheritance is a non-Mendelian form of heredity that involves genetic information located in cytoplasmic organelles, such as mitochondria and chloroplasts, rather than on the chromosomes found in the cell nucleus.” https://lnkd.in/dwqn4Df View in LinkedIn

"NON-MENDELIAN INHERITANCE is when extranuclear genetic elements are involved or gene conversion alters the allelic proportions." https://lnkd.in/dW8_gaj View in LinkedIn

MENDELIAN INHERITANCE has a number of exceptions that have come to light since Mendel. These include: infectious heredity (L and M viruses, prions); extra nuclear inheritance; genomic imprinting; mosaicism; trinucleotide repeat disorders; gene conversion; epigenetics; CoRR hypothesis for plasmids; Intragenomic conflict and transposons; segregation distortion; homing endonuclease genes; B chromosomes; cytoplasmic genes (anisogamy; feminization; male killing; male sterility); parthenogenesis; cytoplasmic incompatibility; green beard effect. https://lnkd.in/dVC7Cmh View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE is about reverse speciation, which is almost a Darwinian heresy. Niche exploitation by becoming increasingly specialized has been well studied, exemplified in Darwin’s finches and in orchid-pollinator relationships. As species become more specialized, breeding isolation results in the formation of new species. For a long time, biologists thought that there were examples where specialization could lead to evolutionary dead-ends and species extinction. In recent years, this has been re-examined. View in LinkedIn

NEW EXTENDED EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS. “We begin by providing brief overviews of evo-devo, developmental plasticity, inclusive inheritance and niche construction, highlighting divergent interpretations.” An important paper, and long-overdue update of the Modern Synthesis, which is a little past its sell-by-date. https://lnkd.in/din4RvV View in LinkedIn

FORTY TWO. "As the computer Deep Thought pointed out in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, it’s no good spending seven and a half million years working on the answer if you don’t start with a good idea of what the question is." " "The Answers by Catherine Lacey review – how to solve the love problem https://lnkd.in/eNPN7Gz View in LinkedIn

THE MODERN SYNTHESIS “is rightly regarded as one of the major achievements of biology and led to the widespread adoption of several core assumptions.” https://lnkd.in/din4RvV View in LinkedIn

MESMERIZINGLY STUPID. Today, it seems, all we can talk about is the tweets of the US president. What about extraterrestial life? View in LinkedIn

THE MODERN SYNTHESIS has been the accepted consensus view of evolution. Developed in the 1930s and 1940s, Neo-Darwinism fused Mendelian genetics (1865) with Darwinian evolution (Origin of Species, 1859) into a new unified theory of evolution. https://lnkd.in/d5hFgkR View in LinkedIn

DNA SEQUENCE EVOLUTION IS ALL! Except for extranuclear evolution. https://lnkd.in/df6FZrB View in LinkedIn