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Cornerstone model of evolutionary biology built on math flaw, study argues

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Charles Roseman, associate professor in the Department of Eco...

Cornerstone model of evolutionary biology built on math flaw, study argues
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New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Charles Roseman, associate professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Biology at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, published their findings in Evolution.

Originally published at Phys.org

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