The Social Direction of Evolution

Reticulate evolution and cladism: Tests

Reticulate evolution and cladism: Tests for the direction of evolution

✍ R. S. Thorpe 📂 Article 📅 1982 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 281 KB

The social evolution of somatic fusion

✍ Duur K. Aanen; Alfons J.M. Debets; J. Arjan G.M. de Visser; Rolf F. Hoekstra 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 164 KB 👁 3 views

## Abstract The widespread potential for somatic fusion among different conspecific multicellular individuals suggests that such fusion is adaptive. However, because recognition of non‐kin (allorecognition) usually leads to a rejection response, successful somatic fusion is limited to close kin. Th

Direction Versus Proximity in the Social

Direction Versus Proximity in the Social Influence Process

✍ Christopher Kenny; Eric Jenner 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 233 KB

The cultural evolution of socially situa

The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition

✍ Liane Gabora 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 177 KB

Because human cognition is creative and socially situated, knowledge accumulates, diffuses, and gets applied in new contexts, generating cultural analogs of phenomena observed in population genetics such as adaptation and drift. It is therefore commonly thought that elements of culture evolve throug

Temporal relation co-clustering on direc

Temporal relation co-clustering on directional social network and author-topic evolution

✍ Wei Peng; Tao Li 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 510 KB

Directed Evolution of Enzymes

✍ Uwe T. Bornscheuer 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 110 KB 👁 1 views

On the way to a combinatorial biotechnology? The directed evolution of enzymes promises a rapid access to effective biocatalysts. New molecular biology techniques for random mutagenesis in combination with high-throughput screening might revolutionize the creation of enzymes with new and improved pr