Do you know that your favorite dried sausage harbors a lot of interesting #genomic stuff?

The footprints of #domestication in dry-cured meat fungi (including the aptly named Penicillium salami)

In final form at #Evolutionary #Applications

https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13591

Very much related with #CheesyFungi, here a quick and visual reminder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRGcIguvqCs

Free synthesis article now ahead of print! "The #Ancestral #Modulation Hypothesis: Predicting Mechanistic Control of #SexuallyHeteromorphicTraits Using #Evolutionary History" by Andrew P. Anderson & Suzy C. P. Renn https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725438

#BroodParasitism, the exploitation of parental care, is used by diverse #animals from birds to bees and beyond! We reviewed independent origins of this strategy to investigate its #phylogenetic distribution, fascinating #behaviors, and #evolutionary consequences for #diversification.

Article by Sless et al. now available ahead of print! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724839

Scientists reveal #genomic distribution and #evolutionary patterns of #6mA modifications in #plants.

#methylation

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-scientists-reveal-genomic-evolutionary-patterns.html

#Horses are maybe the most studied #fossil #mammals (I did 1/3 of my dissertation on them!). They've been central to understanding #evolution for as long as #evolutionary #biology has existed, so it was thrilling to see #zebras, the most widespread wild #equids, upon arriving in #Zambia!

Many people sense (taste) #chocolate as delicious because (besides cocoa) its main ingredients are sugar & phat.

Animal Phat is a relatively high energy source of #food

Think of a hunter forager lifestyle. To survive, the energy expended to hunt prey (food) must not exceed the energy that the food provides (net energy)

The reason why humans "put on phat" is because energy storage was #evolutionary adaptative. Way back then, when or where was the next meal coming from? (not a shop).

Many people sense (taste) #chocolate as delicious because (besides cocoa) its main ingredients are sugar & phat.

Animal Phat is a relatively high energy source of #food

Think of a hunter forager lifestyle. To survive, the energy expended to hunt prey (food) must not exceed the energy that the food provides (net energy)

The reason why humans "put on phat" is because energy storage was #evolutionary adaptative. Way back then, when or where was the next meal coming form? (not a shop).

Many people sense (taste) #chocolate as delicious because (besides cocoa) its main ingredients are sugar & phat.

Animal Phat is a relatively high energy source of #food

Think of a hunter forager lifestyle. To survive, the energy expanded to hunt prey (food) must not exceed the energy that the food provides (net energy)

The reason why humans "put on phat" is because energy storage was #evolutionary adaptative. Way back then, when or where was the next meal coming form? (not a shop).

A contingent from the MEAT Lab has made it safely to #PortTownsend for #EvoWIBO, possibly the best - and definitely the most scenic - #evolutionary #biology conference out there!

Just as an #evolutionary thought experiment - what would happen in a population of people in which absolutely everyone thought "How can I help you?" (if they were able)

Call me a dreamer - if ants 🐜 can cooperate to be a super organism - surely humans can learn too? 🤔

#EvolutionaryBiologist #ecology #evolution of a #music #culture

Excellent discussion relating the energy dynamics of #evolutionary #biology to humans energy requirements.

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival: Power in Nature

Episode webpage: https://power.postcarbon.org/

Media file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2035664/11273212-power-in-nature.mp3

#climate #wildlife #ecology

New Evidence Sheds Light on the #Evolutionary Mystery of North American #Wolves.

#genomics #conservation

https://scitechdaily.com/new-evidence-sheds-light-on-the-evolutionary-mystery-of-north-american-wolves/

Researchers find #evolutionary support for #induced #defenses.

#pleiotropy #immunity

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-evolutionary-defenses.html

PhD positions available in #Evolutionary #Biophysics
at The University of Lincoln, UK, with Graziella Iossa, Manabu Sakamoto, Tom Pike and myself. Graduate teaching fellowships, combined research and teaching, 4 year funding, open to international students. Closes APRIL 17th, please re-post! https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/studywithus/postgraduatestudy/researchstudentships/

I'm excited to share that I'm starting as an #Editor in #Molecular #Phylogenetics and #Evolution journal ~ handling #herpetology ms🦎🐍🐢🐸. Looking forward to contributing to build solid and transparent scientific knowledge in #Evolutionary #Biology 💪 https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/molecular-phylogenetics-and-evolution

#African #FossilFriday

In the 1980s, a diamond mine in Orapa, #Botswana 🇧🇼 began to yield gems of a different kind: #fossils of #Cretaceous #flowers and #insects, including #flies, #beetles, #ants, and #wasps. This #lagerstätte (a site of exceptional #fossil #preservation) records one of the most important #evolutionary transitions in the history of #life on land: the spread of #flowering #plants and their #coevolution with #insect #pollinators.

Photos from Rayner, 1993
https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA052550590_225

Thomas #Hertog, collaborator of the late #StephenHawking, claims his mentor came around to the theory of #evolutionary #universe with changing #laws of nature (and the reality of #time) - a theory offered yrs ago by Lee #Smolin, Roberto Mangabeira #Unger, but also Stuart #Kauffman among others - proposed just at the time Hawking published his notorious “Brief History of Time” bestseller.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/19/stephen-hawking-told-me-ive-changed-my-mind-my-book-is-wrong

The 'Rapunzel' #virus: An #evolutionary oddity.

#bacteriophage

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-rapunzel-virus-evolutionary-oddity.html

The #Evolutionary #QuantitativeGenetics Workshop for 2023 is taking place at #UWashington's Friday Harbor Laboratories from June 4-10. The workshop will review the basics of theory in the field of evolutionary quantitative genetics and its connections to evolution observed at various time scales. Application deadline is March 31. More info here: https://fhl.uw.edu/courses/course-descriptions/course/evolutionary-quantitative-genetics-workshop-2023/

Reconstructing the #evolutionary history of #detoxifying #enzymes.

#FMOs

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-reconstructing-evolutionary-history-detoxifying-enzymes.html