Flour beetles of the genus Tribolium have been utilised as informative study systems for over
a century and contributed to major advances across many fields. This review serves to …

The central insight of Darwin's Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological
phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the'struggle for life'. By contrast, the …

Abstract qpAdm is a statistical tool for studying the ancestry of populations with histories that
involve admixture between two or more source populations. Using qpAdm, it is possible to …

Scientific inquiry has led to immense explanatory and technological successes, partly as a
result of the pervasiveness of scientific theories. Relativity theory, evolutionary theory, and …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Models of evolutionary population dynamics represent changes in the structure of evolving
populations in terms of selection, drift, and fitness. 1 There is a range of such models, from …

Darwin provided us with a powerful theoretical framework to explain the evolution of living
systems. Natural selection alone, however, has sometimes been seen as insufficient to …

In this paper, I respond to four common semantic and metaphysical objections that
philosophers of race have launched at scholars who interpret recent human genetic …

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology,
mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our …

The concept of the environment appears to be indispensably involved in adaptive
explanation. Quite what its role is, however, is a matter of some dispute. The environment is …