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Reproductive isolation arises during laboratory adaptation to a novel hot environment

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Background: Reproductive isolation can result from adaptive processes (e.g., ecological speciation and mutation-order speciation) or stochastic processes such as "system drift" model. Ecological speciation predicts barriers to gene flow between populations ...
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Energy-harnessing problem solving of primordial life: Modeling the emergence of catalytic host-nested parasite life cycles

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All life forms on earth ultimately descended from a primordial population dubbed the last universal common ancestor or LUCA via Darwinian evolution. Extant living systems share two salient functional features, a metabolism extracting and transforming energ ...
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