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BLIND DEDUCTION. "In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings. Developed by Cornell researchers, the program deduced the natural laws without a shred of knowledge about physics or geometry." A confounding example of blind deduction. https://lnkd.in/d3kaQxh View in LinkedIn

REVERSE ENGINEERING A MIND (Koene, Carboncopies). https://lnkd.in/def9f55 View in LinkedIn

SELECTION AND GENOMES. “Even though the effects of selection on linked neutral diversity (linked selection) within populations are well documented, recent observations of diversity and differentiation landscapes that are highly correlated even among independent lineages suggest that the effects of long-term linked selection may have a deeper impact on the evolution of the genomic landscapes of diversity and differentiation than previously anticipated.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.14167/full View in LinkedIn

ACTIVE SPANDRELS. “In such genomic regions, linkage extends over physically larger genome stretches, and selection affects a particularly high number of linked neutral sites.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.14167/full View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTIONARY SPANDREL. “In genomic regions where recombination is infrequent, accentuated differentiation can evolve as a by-product of diversity reductions unrelated to adaptation or speciation.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.14167/full View in LinkedIn

PURIFYING SELECTION. “Instead of being an effect of selective sweeps or barriers to gene flow, accentuated differentiation can evolve by any process reducing genetic diversity locally within the genome, including purifying selection at linked sites (background selection).” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.14167/full View in LinkedIn

ANOTHER ROUTE. “The genomic landscapes of diversity and differentiation are usually highly heterogeneous, it has also led to the increasing realization that this heterogeneity may evolve under processes other than adaptation or speciation.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.14167/full View in LinkedIn

SELECTION IS CORE. “Selection has a deep impact on the distribution of genetic diversity and population differentiation along the genome (the genomic landscapes of diversity and differentiation), reducing diversity and elevating differentiation not only at the sites it targets, but also at linked neutral sites.” https://lnkd.in/dWhdAqA View in LinkedIn

NON-ADAPTIVE. “Evolution by non-adaptive forces also occurs quickly, with ecological consequences.” https://lnkd.in/dv4gE6X View in LinkedIn

ADAPTATION, TWO WAYS. “Recent eco-evolutionary research focuses on how rapid adaptation influences ecology, and vice versa.” https://lnkd.in/dv4gE6X View in LinkedIn