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The cost/benefit analysis that defeated Darwin[requires 'free' registration]
"Darwin's struggle to explain the dung beetle's diversity of horns in terms of the benefits such variety bestowed is shelved by research published tomorrow. An American ecologist shows that it is not the benefits so much as the physiological costs of a horn's position on other traits that cause the adaptive range."
""The reproductive benefits of horn production may explain why horns are large, but they cannot explain why beetle horns occur in so many different forms and in so many varied locations," he writes. His latest findings show that horn location influences the production of other traits."
redux [04.25.00]
"In the current issue of Advances in Complex Systems (February-April), Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and an expert on the application of mathematical analysis to complex systems, contends that the selfish-gene theory of evolution is fatally flawed.
If his mathematical proof gains general acceptance, it will shut the door on controversial "gene-centered" views of evolution.
Bar-Yam, in the upcoming article, proves that the "selfish gene" approach is not valid in the general case. He demonstrates that the gene-centered view, expressed in mathematical form, is only an approximation of the dynamics actually at work."
"The key to Bar-Yam's analysis lies in recognizing three levels of structure in nature: the gene, the organism and the group (or network) of organisms."
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