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Evolutionary Biology 150 years after the 'Origin': is a post-modern synthesis in sight?

Research    
Origin of the cell nucleus, mitosis and sex: roles of intracellular coevolution
Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Biology Direct 2010, 5:7 (4 February 2010)
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Research    
Rate of sequence divergence under constant selection
Alexey S Kondrashov, Inna S Povolotskaya, Dmitry N Ivankov, Fyodor A Kondrashov
Biology Direct 2010, 5:5 (21 January 2010)
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Research    
Elastic, not plastic species: Frozen plasticity theory and the origin of adaptive evolution in sexually reproducing organisms
Jaroslav Flegr
Biology Direct 2010, 5:2 (13 January 2010)
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Research    
Evolution by leaps: gene duplication in bacteria
Margrethe H Serres, Alastair RW Kerr, Thomas J McCormack, Monica Riley
Biology Direct 2009, 4:46 (23 November 2009)
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Research    
Exceptional error minimization in putative primordial genetic codes
Artem S Novozhilov, Eugene V Koonin
Biology Direct 2009, 4:44 (19 November 2009)
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Review    
Trees and networks before and after Darwin
Mark A Ragan
Biology Direct 2009, 4:43 (16 November 2009)
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Opinion    
Is evolution Darwinian or/and Lamarckian?
Eugene V Koonin, Yuri I Wolf
Biology Direct 2009, 4:42 (11 November 2009)
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Research    
Inferring clocks when lacking rocks: the variable rates of molecular evolution in bacteria
Chih-Horng Kuo, Howard Ochman
Biology Direct 2009, 4:35 (29 September 2009)
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Review    
Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things
Eric Bapteste, Maureen A O'Malley, Robert G Beiko, Marc Ereshefsky, J Peter Gogarten, Laura Franklin-Hall, François-Joseph Lapointe, John Dupré, Tal Dagan, Yan Boucher, William Martin
Biology Direct 2009, 4:34 (29 September 2009)
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Opinion    
The fundamental units, processes and patterns of evolution, and the Tree of Life conundrum
Eugene V Koonin, Yuri I Wolf
Biology Direct 2009, 4:33 (29 September 2009)
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Research    
Structural analysis of polarizing indels: an emerging consensus on the root of the tree of life
Ruben E Valas, Philip E Bourne
Biology Direct 2009, 4:30 (25 August 2009)
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Hypothesis    
On the need for widespread horizontal gene transfers under genome size constraint
Hervé Isambert, Richard R Stein
Biology Direct 2009, 4:28 (25 August 2009)
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Research    
A four-column theory for the origin of the genetic code: tracing the evolutionary pathways that gave rise to an optimized code
Paul G Higgs
Biology Direct 2009, 4:16 (24 April 2009)
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