Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define
a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the …

For many decades, sleep researchers have sought to determine which species 'have'rapid
eye movement (REM) sleep. In doing so, they relied predominantly on a template derived …

Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to
manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic …

The purpose of this book is to present a new mechanistic theory of mutation-driven evolution
based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. The theory …

A fundamental question in developmental biology relates to the connection between
morphological stages and their underlying molecular activity. Here we demonstrate that, at …

The vascular system of lianas exhibits a number of shared features that result from
convergent evolution and are independent of their taxonomic affinities. This chapter …

In 1956, the British developmental biologist, Conrad Waddington, published a paper in the
journal Evolution (Waddington, 1956) in which he succeeded in demonstrating the …

Current books on evolutionary theory all seem to take for granted the fact that students find
evolution easy to understand when actually, from a psychological perspective, it is a rather …

Approaches to macroevolution require integration of its two fundamental components, ie the
origin and the sorting of variation, in a hierarchical framework. Macroevolution occurs in …

New Findings• What is the topic of this review? Have recent experimental findings in
evolutionary biology concerning the transmission of inheritance opened the way to a …