When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" - proposing that biological species change over time through the acquisition of traits that favor survival and reproduction - it provoked a revolution in scientific thought.
  • lostferret@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Evo biologist here. These ideas are not really new to the field of evolution, but they are well laid out (if a little dense) & somewhat codified here.

    The paper is an interesting read. Dunno if i agree with all of it yet, but it’s good to see the case made for thinking about evolution as a process that spans systems come up again.

  • ZpAz@lemm.ee
    2·
    9 months ago

    Is it just:

    • A species with certain traits is more likely to persist in a their environment.

    • Some elements / forces with certain traits are more likely to persist in their environment. (Eg more stable atom configurations etc)

    I thought everyone was already on board with that.

    The most stable configuration would be the heat death of the universe, which will then be around the longest eventually.

  • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
    01·
    9 months ago

    I bet this has something to do with what they recently found out regarding evolution within the lake malawi fish. I heard about that about 2 weeks ago, this lines up too well.