Month: September 2022

HOST SMOKE SCREEN. "We demonstrated how the host’s coevolution led to varied, and sometimes even opposite, effects on the relative fitness of different virus genotypes." http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royprsb/283/1839/20161528.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

THWARTED PATHS. "It is not difficult to imagine that coevolution might sometimes block certain adaptive paths." http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royprsb/283/1839/20161528.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

PROMOTING THE DIFFICULT. "Our results show that coevolution can produce dynamic fitness landscapes in which populations are more evolvable than they would otherwise be. As a consequence, coevolutionary dynamics may promote some key innovations and other hard-to-reach adaptations." http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royprsb/283/1839/20161528.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

SOCIAL COEVOLUTION. "Organisms can directly transmit environmental artifacts to the next generation, in the form of such constructs as beaver dams, bee hives and even social structures (e.g. mating and hunting practices)." https://lnkd.in/dtbdtdb View in LinkedIn

NICHE CONSTRUCTION. "The phenomenon of a species creating an important aspect of its environment and stably transmitting this environment across generations, known as niche construction, is a widespread form of epigenetic transmission. Niche construction includes gene–environment coevolution, because a genetically induced environmental regularity becomes the basis for genetic selection, and gene mutations that give rise to novel niche elements will survive if they are fitness-enhancing for their constructors." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1566/878 View in LinkedIn

HONEYBEE. "An excellent example of gene–environment coevolution is the honeybee, in which the origin of its eusociality probably lay in the high degree of relatedness fostered by haplodiploidy, but which persists in modern species despite the fact that relatedness in the hive is generally quite low, due to multiple queen matings, multiple queens, queen deaths and the like." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1566/878 View in LinkedIn

NEXT LEVEL UP. "The social structure of the hive is transmitted epigenetically across generations, and the honeybee genome is an adaptation to the social structure laid down in the distant past." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1566/878 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this two weekend venture into the theme of coevolution. Clearly, this story is far from over, and there is more to learn. It is interesting to imagine that man and machine may one day coevolve when Artificial Intelligence gains its inevitable autonomy, and when flesh and machine inevitably become more entwined. So far, the story of coevolution in biology has been limited to closely interacting species, such as the microbiome and the host, but this will expand one day to extraordinary realms. View in LinkedIn

A SECURITY EXPLOIT. "Parasitic computing is programming technique where a program in normal authorized interactions with another program manages to get the other program to perform computations of a complex nature. It is, in a sense, a security exploit in that the program implementing the parasitic computing has no authority to consume resources made available to the other program." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_computing View in LinkedIn

COMPUTER VIRUS THREAT. "It is now twenty years since Fred Cohen published his seminal research paper suggesting the potential threat of computer viruses. In the years since this publication, the risk that Cohen described has unquestionably been borne out, and alongside hackers, the threat of the computer virus is the security issue that has most clearly permeated the public mind." (2005). http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/true-computer-parasite View in LinkedIn