Evolutionary History of Copper Membrane Monooxygenases

Evolutionary History of Behavior

History of Evolutionary Theory

The term "evolution" is linked to the idea of development in the sciences of life, and only subsequently did it acquire the present meaning of diversification and origin of new species. The dominant image of the scala naturae, strictly related to the creationist, static and essentialistic positions, was substituted by the image of the tree that characterizes the transformist theories, and that ...

Evolutionary history of subspecies of Eurasian nuthatches (Sitta europaea persica) from Zagros Mountains, Iran

Abstract. Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea), with 18 subspecies, has a wide distribution in deciduous forests of Eurasia. The subspecies S.e.persica is a resident bird in the Zagros Mountains, from north-west to south-west of Iran. The aim of this study was to evaluate the taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships of this subspecies to European, Asian, as well as Caucasian clades. For this purp...

Recovering Evolutionary History

When a group of aligned sequences shows significant similarity to each other, as described in Chapters 4 to 6, this can usually be taken as evidence that they are the result of divergent evolution from a common ancestral sequence. In this case, the sequence alignment will contain traces of the evolutionary history of these sequences. It is possible to infer this history by complex analysis of a...

Biomineralization and Evolutionary History

The Dutch ethologist Niko Tinbergen famously distinguished between proximal and ultimate explanations in biology. Proximally, biologists seek a mechanistic understanding of how organisms function; most of this volume addresses the molecular and physiological bases of biomineralization. But while much of biology might be viewed as a particularly interesting form of chemistry, it is more than tha...