Evolution of RNA viruses occurs through disequilibria of collections of closely related mutant
spectra or mutant clouds termed viral quasispecies. Here we review the origin of the …

Experimental evolution is the study of evolutionary processes occurring in experimental
populations in response to conditions imposed by the experimenter. This research approach …

The moment when the hyperconnectedness of our world became most evident to me was on
October 20th, 2011, when images of the death of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former …

Why is it that some parasites cause high levels of host damage (ie virulence) whereas others
are relatively benign? There are now numerous reviews of virulence evolution in the …

Prevalence of cooperation within groups of selfish individuals is puzzling in that it contradicts
with the basic premise of natural selection. Favoring players with higher fitness, the latter is …

Praise for the first edition:… superb, beautifully written and organized work that takes an
engineering approach to systems biology. Alon provides nicely written appendices to …

At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that
transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in …

Game theory is one of the key paradigms behind many scientific disciplines from biology to
behavioral sciences to economics. In its evolutionary form and especially when the …

We study the evolution of cooperation in the framework of evolutionary game theory,
adopting the prisoner's dilemma and snowdrift game as metaphors of cooperation between …

To explain the evolution of cooperation by natural selection has been a major goal of
biologists since Darwin. Cooperators help others at a cost to themselves, while defectors …