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Adaptive co-evolution of avian hind limbs and flight in birds
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Adaptive co-evolution of avian hind limbs and flight in birds
Daria Y. Romanova, Moroz L., Frontiers in Immunology 2025 Vol. 15 Article 1529836
~520 million years ago, the long biogeochemical history of our planet Earth resulted in a biodiversity burst. The rapid diversification of animals known as the Cambrian explosion (1); transformed planetary ecosystems with novel habitats and food chains (2, 3). However, this emergence of Paleozoic biodiversity (4) is still mysterious due to limited information about basal metazoans ...
Added: November 15, 2025
Leontiev D., Философские науки 2025 Т. 68 № 1 С. 79–91
The paper examines the issue of the humane in the human being in the context of the dialectic between ideals and reality. Reflecting on discussions about human essence leads to the conclusion of its inherent indeterminacy and the multiplicity of potential capabilities within each individual, which develop throughout life. The distinction between ideal and reality ...
Added: September 11, 2025
Haas B., Lou X., Yeung V. W. et al., Personality and Individual Differences 2025 Vol. 247 Article 113398
An important question in cogntive and evolutionary psychology is how the human mind anticipates the future and copes with stress and risk of disease. The parasite-stress model suggests that many patterns of human behavior and thought are adaptations to varying levels of exposure to parasites and pathogens. A growing body of health psychology research shows ...
Added: August 18, 2025
LePoire D., Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A., , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 495–525.
This volume, “Navigating Complexity in Big History—Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions” explores the aspects and proposals for periodization of Big History. This includes considering cross-cutting aspects of measuring complexity (e.g., energy, information, or a combination), considering different mechanisms of natural selection, developing a set of criteria to base the evaluation of frameworks, and ...
Added: May 12, 2025
LePoire D., Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 1–27.
Not so many would argue with identifying complexity as a central concept in Big History and universal evolutionism. It is partly because, perhaps, today, many of us are convinced that not only our world but Universe itself is in a state of major change, and the awareness that we are living in a period of ...
Added: May 12, 2025
Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions
David J. L., L. Grinin, Korotayev A., Springer, 2025.
In the editors’ introduction (Chapter 1), the effort to periodize is placed within the historical context along with considerations from complexity science. Subsequent chapters explore various aspects of periodization and complexity by (a) identifying symmetrical cosmic and biosocial trends, (b) testing rigor and criteria for evaluating periodization, (c) attempting to integrate different approaches through multiple ...
Added: May 12, 2025
Gladkova A., Russian Journal of Linguistics 2022 Vol. 26 No. 1 P. 245–249
The recently published book by Alexey Koshelev addresses the fundamental questions of contemporary linguistic theory on the emergence of concepts and propositions, the nature and structure of human categories and the impact of culture on thought and language. In seeking answers to these questions, the author engages in a stimulating and prolific debate with the ...
Added: February 18, 2025
Korotayev A., LePoire D., Journal of Big History 2025 Vol. 8 No. 1 P. 1–12
A previous study compared the symmetries of the cooling after the Big Bang and the development of life, humans, and civilization on Earth. A simple model of the relative rates of change depicts two cones joined at their bases representing the Big Bang expansion and the acceleration of complexity development on earth through life evolution, ...
Added: January 28, 2025
Sokoloff D., Fomichev C., Rudall P. et al., Journal of Experimental Botany 2022 Vol. 73 No. 14 P. 4637–4661
The grass family (Poaceae) includes cereal crops that provide a key food source for the human population. The food industry uses the starch deposited in the cereal grain, which develops directly from the gynoecium. Morphological interpretation of the grass gynoecium remains controversial. We re-examine earlier hypotheses and studies of morphology and development in the context ...
Added: February 20, 2024
R. V. Dmitriev, Gorokhov S. A., Agafoshin M. M., R-Economy 2023 Vol. 9 No. 2 P. 140–154
Relevance. The development of central place theory has been hindered by its static nature, as it fails to capture transitions between equilibrium states in central place systems. This long-standing problem remains unsolved since the theory's inception 90 years ago. This article presents a solution by examining the cases of system unification and system breakup, where ...
Added: February 16, 2024
Nedoluzhko A. V., Sharko F., Boulygina E. et al., Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 2020 Vol. 5 No. 1 P. 243–245
The complete mitochondrial genome from the Pleistocene stallion horse (Equus cf. lenensis) which complete skull was found in 1901 on Kotelny Island (New Siberian Archipelago, Sakha Republic, Russia) is published in this paper. The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is 16,584 base pairs (bp) in length and contained 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes. ...
Added: September 20, 2023
Zhiyanov A., Shkurnikov M., Nersisyan A. et al., Journal of Medical Virology 2023 Vol. 95 No. 8 Article e28996
In somatic cells, microRNAs (miRNAs) bind to the genomes of RNA viruses and influence their translation and replication. In London and Berlin samples represented in GISAID database, we traced severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineages and divided these sequenced in two groups, “Ancestral variants” and “Omicrons,” and analyzed them through the prism of ...
Added: August 20, 2023
Zhiyanov A., Shkurnikov M., Клеточные технологии в биологии и медицине 2022 № 4 С. 216–221
RNA interference in vertebrates acts as an antiviral mechanism only in undifferentiated embryonic stem cells and mediates through microRNAs. In somatic cells, microRNA host cells also bind to the genomes of RNA viruses, regulating their translation and replication. It has been shown that (+)RNA viruses are able to evolve under the influence of host cell ...
Added: February 17, 2023
Alexey Dmitrievich Neverov, Fedonin G. G., Popova A. V. et al., eLife 2023 Vol. 12 Article e82516
SARS-CoV-2 has adapted in a stepwise manner, with multiple beneficial mutations accumulating in a rapid succession at origins of VOCs, and the reasons for this are unclear. Here, we searched for coordinated evolution of amino acid sites in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. Specifically, we searched for concordantly evolving site pairs (CSPs) for which changes ...
Added: February 10, 2023
Stolyarova A. V., Nabieva E., Ptushenko V. V. et al., Nature Communications 2020 Vol. 11 Article 4603
Amino acid propensities at a site change in the course of protein evolution. This may happen for two reasons. Changes may be triggered by substitutions at epistatically interacting sites elsewhere in the genome. Alternatively, they may arise due to environmental changes that are external to the genome. Here, we design a framework for distinguishing between ...
Added: December 8, 2022
Alexey D. Neverov, Popova A., Fedonin G. et al., PLoS Genetics 2021 Vol. 17 No. 1 Article e1008711
The rate of evolution differs between protein sites and changes with time. However, the link between these two phenomena remains poorly understood. Here, we design a phylogenetic approach for distinguishing pairs of amino acid sites that evolve concordantly, i.e., such that substitutions at one site trigger subsequent substitutions at the other; and also pairs of ...
Added: December 8, 2022