Cloning Branching Patterns Major Transitions Of Evolution And Other Writings

Cloning, Branching Patterns, the Major Transitions of Evolution, & Other writings

Sample: "What does language do? Or, what does culture do? Language and culture are non-genetic mechanisms for increasing the number of qualities across individuals, and language and culture also increase the capacity for intraspecific assortative mating across individuals in the human species (by increasing the number of dissimilarities and categories of similarities across individuals in the human species). It is interesting to consider functional analogies amongst animals and plants: Birdsong and feather colors in bird species, and the colors and shapes of angiosperm flowering plant species play similar functions in these species, i.e., they increase the number and differentiation of characteristics across individual organisms, thus increasing the capacity for assortative mating across individual organisms in bird species (intraspecific assortative mating), and increasing the capacity for assortative mating across angiosperm species and insect, bee, and bird species (interspecific assortative mating).""

Cloning, Branching Patterns, Major Transitions of Evolution, and Other Writings

This book concerns branching patterns, including new principles for explaining the conditions under which branching patterns emerge. Moreover, the strategy of comparing populations of clones to natural populations may have applications and uses across scientific disciplines and sub-fields, in addition to being a way of generating new predictions related to biological phenomena and biological systems, or across political science and organizational variation. That is, computer scientists, mathematicians, and scientists from various fields have been doing simulations of branching patterns since the mid-20th century; however, it has not been recognized that comparing populations of clones to natural populations or random samples of natural populations is a way to collapse the distribution of characteristics or branching patterns of the natural populations. As suggested in the book, comparing populations of clones to natural populations is a strategy for identifying and visualizing branching patterns across scientific disciplines.

Molecular Organization, Evolution, and Function of Ribosomal DNA