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Exploring the evolution of social norms with a supercomputer

Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (Japan) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (Germany) have published new findings on how social norms evolve over time. They simulated how norms promote different social behavior, a…

2024-08-09 12:11

An estimate of fitness reduction from mutation accumulation in a mammal allows assessment of the consequences of relaxed selection

Spontaneous mutations tend to reduce fitness in populations of living organisms, but this erosion of fitness is countered by natural selection. This study uses the first mutation accumulation experiment in a mammal to show that even in the absence of natural …

2024-09-26 14:00