A guest post by Eric Sawyer. Also check out Eric's own Scitable blog, Bio 2.0. 'Dissecting the next revolution in biology' We live in a world utterly and completely inundated with living things. You ...

The seventh EO parameter is the selection pressure, often called tau in research literature, which is set to 0.40 in the demo. The selection pressure is used by the part of the algorithm that ...

Genetic algorithms borrow their name and principles from biological evolution, but can they help researchers discover the fundamentals of life? Evolution is one of the most widely known theories in ...

Up to 40% of rare diseases show facial alterations that enable researchers to identify some pathologies and they can even help them to establish an early diagnosis. Historically, the visual evaluation ...

The unexpected discovery of a new type of genetic variation suggests that natural selection -- the force that drives evolution -- is both more powerful and more complex than scientists have thought.

Developing high-yielding, nutritious and climate-resilient crops is vital to safeguard the future of global food production.

Genetic theory predicts that directional selection should deplete additive genetic variance for traits closely related to fitness, and may favor the maintenance of alleles with antagonistically ...

This paper reconstructs the history of the introduction and use of iterative algorithms in conservation biology in the 1980s and early 1990s in order to prioritize areas for protection as nature ...