Month: September 2022

SOCIETAL SACRIFICE. "Among eusocial insects, workers routinely sacrifice their lives to benefit the colony and their siblings. One familiar example occurs in honeybee workers, which commit suicide each time they sting invaders in defense of their hive." View in LinkedIn

REFERENCE FOR TODAY: Are Internal, Death-Promoting Mechanisms Ever Adaptive?" "John W Pepper, Deborah E Shelton, Armin Rashidi, and Pierre M Duran. (This reference refuses to post normally on LI). View in LinkedIn

HONEYBEE "workers altruistically commit suicide in ways that apparently function to prevent the spread of disease within the hive. In these cases, there is little mystery concerning function or evolution. Kin selection, or equivalently, selection among colonies, is a powerful force shaping the evolution of eusocial insects." (The unit of selection is kin). View in LinkedIn

ABSURD IDEA? "The idea that self-inflicted organismal death could be adaptive sounds, at face value, absurd. An adaptation is a trait that is suitable (apt) for the current circumstances or environmental challenges, and archetypal examples include traits that promote survival. Natural selection is the mechanism that produces adaptations." View in LinkedIn

SIMPLE AND SHORT WINS. "Limited structural complexity and limited longevity are essential for the survival of a species." https://lnkd.in/d27Pz-m View in LinkedIn

IN SILICO studies of evolutionary dynamics, giving selective forces over millions of generations under different assumption rules cast interesting insights to a natural process that is only otherwise possible to examine through a static fossil or genetic record. View in LinkedIn

DEATH AS KEY AS BIRTH. "The concept of death in cellular automata is just as important as self-reproduction." https://lnkd.in/dSdcD2A View in LinkedIn

FITNESS DEMANDS DEATH. "Death is important to realize for natural selection, which is based on the survival of fitter organisms." http://sjsu.rudyrucker.com/~shruti.parihar/paper/ View in LinkedIn

FUNCTIONAL VS STRUCTURAL DEATH, "Realization of death can be functional or structural." http://sjsu.rudyrucker.com/~shruti.parihar/paper/ View in LinkedIn

"A FUNCTIONAL DEATH is when a cell transcends to a non-living state from a living one. In other words, we do not see structural dissemination, but only a loss of functionality." http://sjsu.rudyrucker.com/~shruti.parihar/paper/ View in LinkedIn