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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Investments in photoreceptors compete with investments in optics to determine eye design

    Francisco JH Heras, Simon B Laughlin
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    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    An initial report of circa 241,000- to 335,000-year-old rock engravings and their relation to Homo naledi in the Rising Star cave system, South Africa

    Lee R Berger, John Hawks ... Keneiloe Molopyane
    Engraved features found within the Dinaledi Subsystem are interpreted as being made by Homo naledi in the absence of evidence of other candidate makers.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals

    Alba Marino, Gautier Debaecker ... Benoit Nabholz
    A large-scale survey across animals reveals no general association between genome size expansion and the relaxation of natural selection.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use

    Elliot Howard-Spink, Tetsuro Matsuzawa ... Dora Biro
    Long-term standardized data collection on wild western chimpanzees reveals late-life changes in stone tool use, and the extent of these changes varies between individuals.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolutionary Biology: Embracing the complexity of cooperation

    Benjamin Allen
    A theoretical framework for analyzing the evolution of nonlinear cooperative interactions is taking shape.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication

    Philipp Schwintek, Emre Eren ... Dieter Braun
    Exponential nucleic acid replication can occur isothermally in a prebiotically plausible setting that accumulates and simultaneously separates the strands of nucleic acids through evaporation-driven flows at the gas–water interface.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Diverse prey capture strategies in teleost larvae

    Duncan S Mearns, Sydney A Hunt ... Herwig Baier
    The evolution of hunting behavior in fish larvae has arrived at different, species-specific solutions, recombining a shared repertoire of locomotor and eye movement motifs.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Current insights into insect immune memory

    Gabriela Krejčová, Adam Bajgar
    Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Species biology and demographic history determines species vulnerability to climate change in tropical island endemic birds

    Ratnesh Karjee, Vikram Iyer ... Balaji Chattopadhyay
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Divergent C. elegans toxin alleles are suppressed by distinct mechanisms

    Stefan Zdraljevic, Laura Walter-McNeill ... Leonid Kruglyak
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Solid