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EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. “Short-term studies often find dramatic and rapid rates of phenotypic change, whereas long-term studies seem to manifest much slower rates of change.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

RAPID EVOLUTION EXAMPLES. “Colour patterns and life-history traits in guppies introduced to new predator environments, work on life-history traits in mosquitofish introduced to Hawaii, and work on phenotypic traits in rabbits introduced to New Zealand.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

RAPID EVOLUTION EXAMPLE. “The evolution in

RAPID EVOLUTION EXAMPLE. “House mice introduced to the Welsh island of Skokholm changed dramatically in skeletal measurements over only 70 years.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

RAPID EVOLUTION EXAMPLE. “House sparrows (Passer domesticus) introduced to North America diversified phenotypically as they colonized different habitats.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

TWO TIME SCALES. “Slobodkin (1961) formalized this perspective by arguing that ‘ecological time’ was the ten-or-so generation period over which a population might, on average, maintain a steady state. ‘Evolutionary time’, in contrast, was considered the approximately half-a-million-year period sufficient for evolutionary change to disrupt ecological steady states.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend on the theme of surprisingly rapid evolution. The number of examples of adaptation in just generations is increasing. This speaks to enormous phenotypic plasticity, and may even give an insight into the subject of abrupt evolutionary jumps or saltations, a contentious subject. View in LinkedIn

Yes, bacon really is killing us. Where are our regulators in this mess? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

OUR REALITY IS A DERIVED CONDITION. “The relationship of quantum biology to classical biology has much in common with the relationship between quantum and classical physics. In both cases, the quantum realms deal with very small entities that behave in a counter-intuitive manner, profoundly different from classical understanding. And, in both cases the quantum realm is proving to be the more fundamental, with the classical view describing a derived and specialized condition.” https://standardsingenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40793-016-0180-8 View in LinkedIn

MULTIPLE EFFECTS. “Plasticity may have a variety of influences on contemporary evolution, ranging from being a constraint on adaptive evolution (owing to reduced selection) all the way to being a promoter of adaptive evolution (by bringing populations into the domain of attraction of new fitness peaks).” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn