Since publication of their paper, “spandrel” has become shorthand among evolutionary biologists for an incidental trait, or ...

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Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was first published in 1859, introducing much of the world to evolutionary theory. By that time, Darwin had lived through most of the first Industrial ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

George F. R. Ellis is in the Mathematics Department of the University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, Cape Town, South Africa. Assembly theory fills this gap in an innovative way by quantifying the ...