Books and Ideas is back with an interview of Jonathan Losos, author of Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution. This fascinating book reveals the surprising world of experimental evolutionary biology. We explore how experiments both in the laboratory and in the wild are answering long-standing questions about how evolution works.
Links and References:
- Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
- Z.D. Blount, Lenski, R.E., and Losos, JB. 2018. "Contingency and determinism in evolution: Replaying life’s tape" Science 362. DOI: 10.1126/science.aam5979
- Brian Swetik. 2019. "Strange Marine Creature Resembles a Reptilian Platypus: Small eyes and decorative plates make this Triassic creature stand out" Scientific American, January 30, 2019
- L Chen, et. Al. 2019. "Early Triassic marine reptile representing the oldest record of unusually small eyes in reptiles indicating non-visual prey detection." Nature 152.
- R.D. H Barrett, et. al. 2019. "Linking a mutation to survival in wild mice" Science (363) 499-504. DOI:10.1126/science.aav3824
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