Evolutionary routes to stable ownership

Molecular Evolutionary Routes That Lead to Innovations

1 Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 32-34 Avenue Tony Garnier, 69007 Lyon, France 2Hayama Center for Advanced Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa 240-0193, Japan 3Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, 35, Keyan Road, Zhunan, Miaoli County...

Evolutionary routes to non-kin cooperative breeding in birds.

Cooperatively breeding animals live in social groups in which some individuals help to raise the offspring of others, often at the expense of their own reproduction. Kin selection--when individuals increase their inclusive fitness by aiding genetic relatives--is a powerful explanation for the evolution of cooperative breeding, particularly because most groups consist of family members. However,...

Reliability Based Query Restriction: Discovering Stable Routes

Evolutionary Design of Synthetic Routes in Chemistry

The development of efficient methods to synthesise chemicals is a crucial task for the chemical industry. New synthetic routes were once developed largely by analogy with known reactions, but more systematic approaches are now used, in which computers play a central role. Most computer-driven synthesis programs incorporate a database of chemical reactions and expert system rules. These are used...

Evolutionary routes from a prebiotic ANA-world

Recent experimental support has been generated for a model of prebiotic development that postulates a role for Amyloid-Nucleic Acid (ANA)-fibers as the earliest replicating entities capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Here, this new model is compared with existing RNA-world models with a particular focus on trajectories that lead to evolutionary-beneficial interactions between nucleic ac...