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NEW CONVERSATION. “The frequency, magnitude and importance of evolution on ecological time-scales are likely to grow as human environmental impacts increase and their effects ramify. The dialogue in evolutionary biology will soon be dominated by discussions of systems in which evolution is ongoing, directional and in many cases non-reversing because environments are changed so substantially.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

RELATIONS BETWEEN SPECIES. “The eco-evolutionary dynamics of interspecific interactions may strongly influence community dynamics, food web structure and ecosystem function. Some of the best examples here come from interactions between hosts and pathogens in introduced species.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

INTERRELATED DYNAMICS. “One of the main implications of this perspective is that environmental change will alter the complex, dynamic relationships between adaptation and gene flow, and will therefore influence adaptive divergence and speciation. Gene flow may have similar complicated and dynamic influences on population persistence.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

IMPACT OF GENE FLOW. “Contemporary evolution will be strongly influenced by rates and patterns of gene flow and dispersal. For example, gene flow may hinder adaptive differentiation by reducing the genetic independence of populations inhabiting different selective environments, but may sometimes promote adaptive differentiation by supplementing the genetic variation on which selection can act.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

HIDDEN THIRD WORLD. “Woese and Fox, in perhaps the most important biodiversity discovery of the past 100 years, used what were then cutting edge molecular tools to disprove the existing notion that the biosphere could be divided dichotomously into eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Instead, hidden among the prokaryotes they found another group—the Archaea—that was as different from the bacteria as either were from the eukaryotes.” https://standardsingenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40793-016-0180-8 View in LinkedIn

ALL ABOUT FITNESS. “Maternal effects are like phenotypic plasticity in that they can change fitness in the absence of genetic change, and can thereby alter the frequencies of phenotypes. Moreover, reaction norms (patterns of plasticity) and maternal effects may both evolve substantially across just a few generations, thus changing the response of organisms to environmental heterogeneity.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa View in LinkedIn

PEAR-SHAPED WORLD. “Despite multi-cellular eukaryotes being merely that “few percent of the whole,” nearly all of classical biology, from Aristotle onwards, has been based on the composition and characteristics of multi-cellular eukaryotes. To put it bluntly, classical biology has been the study of multi-cellular eukaryotes by multi-cellular eukaryotes for multi-cellular eukaryotes.” https://standardsingenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40793-016-0180-8 View in LinkedIn

PLASTICITY BUFFER. “Plasticity may also serve to buffer populations from environmental change, thus reducing the risk of extinction and making adaptive evolution possible.” https://lnkd.in/dAmAVYa 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