Aimer A. Gutiérrez-Díaz

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Is there any molecular analog of the Spandrels of San Marco?, Do we need a critique against the molecular pan-adaptationist paradigm?

Is there any example of a non-functional (or accidentally functional) gene or protein. I mean is there any report about a DNA sequence that encode a protein (or any other molecular product)...

04 April 2015 663 0 View

Are there scientific alternatives to the sexual selection? Could be the concept of sexual selection reduced to the (dis)assortative mating concept?

There are some people against the recurrent use of the gene reductionism in the SS approach, even some others are trying to replace the SS theory by social selection...

12 December 2014 8,375 4 View

Is evolution predictable? Is it a methodological problem or ontological one?

This question is very associated to one more famous question, If the clock rewound, would organisms evolve the same way they did before? But I don't want to ask for the last one, although similar,...

10 October 2014 3,112 9 View

Has the philosophical analysis contributed to solve any biological conceptual problems?

Of course the first question would be how many conceptual/empirical problems, of philosophy's interest the biology has? How many of those problems has been solved? Just in case of any extremist...

09 September 2014 769 94 View

How could be the Neo Darwinism distort or refuted?

As a theoretical game or in order to anticipate an evolutionary biology revolution and of course without any intention of get back to non scientific debates like the ID. What kind of empirical...

09 September 2014 9,848 25 View

Are there any virus species able to infect Archaeal and Bacteria?

I've read some family viruses as Siphoviridae, Myoviridae, Podoviridae and Tectiviridae have members that are able to infect archaea and bacteria, however, members belong to different clades and...

09 September 2014 5,893 6 View

Does strong or rough inheritance really exist?

One discontent with the role of the epigenetics in the evolutionary thought is that it´s, by definition, just soft inheritance. But what is rough inheritance? What determine that one inheritance...

06 June 2014 6,211 4 View

Is the Systematics (Molecular), in the light of the new evolutionary theories, a field with a robust conceptual and methodological framework?

I have been interested on the theoretical foundations of the Systematics, especially when this area meets molecular biology and started to ignore other information sources as chromosomes or...

06 June 2014 2,471 12 View

Are species the only product of evolution?

What about genetic parasites or multicellular parasites as cancer? They can evolve, so are they species? Without getting into the species problem, what exactly is the ontological product of...

03 March 2014 8,002 13 View

Is there Phenomenological Levels of Evolution? What happened with the Eldredge's Paper?

According with this paper: Phenomenological Levels and Evolutionary Rates, the main eldredge's idea is that "There are as many phenomenological levels of evolution as there are discrete sorts of...

04 April 2013 2,633 2 View