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A biochemical logarithmic sensor with broad dynamic range.

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

A general model of the public goods dilemma.

scientific article

A kin selection model for the evolution of virulence

scientific article published in December 1992

A model for the sequential dominance of antigenic variants in African trypanosome infections

scientific article published in July 1999

A simple derivation and classification of common probability distributions based on information symmetry and measurement scale ⬇️

scientific article published on January 25, 2011

Age-specific acceleration in malignant melanoma

scientific article published on 09 January 2017

Age-specific acceleration of cancer

scientific article published in February 2004

Age-specific incidence of inherited versus sporadic cancers: a test of the multistage theory of carcinogenesis.

scientific article

All of life is social

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Barriers to antigenic escape by pathogens: trade-off between reproductive rate and antigenic mutability.

scientific article

Cell biology: Developmental predisposition to cancer

scientific article published in April 2003

Commentary: Mathematical models of cancer progression and epidemiology in the age of high throughput genomics.

scientific article published on 19 August 2004

Cytoplasmic Incompatibility and Population Structure

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Demography and the tragedy of the commons.

scientific article

Dynamics of Cytoplasmic Incompatability with MultipleWolbachiaInfections ⬇️

scientific article published on May 21, 1998

Evolution and immunology of infectious diseases: what’s new?

scientific article published in 2004

Evolution in health and medicine Sackler colloquium: Somatic evolutionary genomics: mutations during development cause highly variable genetic mosaicism with risk of cancer and neurodegeneration.

scientific article

Evolution of Robustness and Cellular Stochasticity of Gene Expression ⬇️

scientific article published on June 11, 2013

Evolution of negative immune regulators

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Evolution: Mitochondrial Burden on Male Health ⬇️

scientific article published on September 25, 2012

Evolutionary dynamics of redundant regulatory control.

scientific article published on 03 August 2008

Generative models versus underlying symmetries to explain biological pattern ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 April 2014

Genetic predisposition to cancer — insights from population genetics

scientific article

Genetic variation of polygenic characters and the evolution of genetic degeneracy

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Genetics of mutualism: the evolution of altruism between species

scientific article published in October 1994

George Price's contributions to evolutionary genetics.

scientific article

Host-symbiont conflict over the mixing of symbiotic lineages

scientific article published in March 1996

How to Understand Behavioral Patterns in Big Data: The Case of Human Collective Memory

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

How to make a kin selection model

scientific article published in May 1996

Immune response to parasitic attack: evolution of a pulsed character

scientific article published in December 2002

Inducible defence and the social evolution of herd immunity ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

Input-output relations in biological systems: measurement, information and the Hill equation.

scientific article

Invariance in ecological pattern

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Invariant death ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 August 2016

Kin selection and virulence in the evolution of protocells and parasites

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

Kinetics of cancer: a method to test hypotheses of genetic causation

scientific article

Maladaptation and the paradox of robustness in evolution

scientific article

Measurement invariance explains the universal law of generalization for psychological perception

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

Measurement scale in maximum entropy models of species abundance.

scientific article

Microbial Evolution: Regulatory Design Prevents Cancer-like Overgrowths ⬇️

scientific article published on May 6, 2013

Microbial metabolism: optimal control of uptake versus synthesis ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 February 2014

Microbial secretor-cheater dynamics

scientific article

Mitochondria and male disease

scientific article published in September 1996

Models of symbiosis

scientific article

Multiplicity of infection and the evolution of hybrid incompatibility in segmented viruses

scientific article

Multivariate Analysis of Correlated Selection and Kin Selection, with an ESS Maximization Method ⬇️

scientific article published on December 7, 1997

Natural selection maximizes Fisher information.

scientific article

Natural selection. I. Variable environments and uncertain returns on investment* ⬇️

scientific article published on September 21, 2011

Natural selection. II. Developmental variability and evolutionary rate.

scientific article published on 21 September 2011

Natural selection. III. Selection versus transmission and the levels of selection

scientific article (publication date: February 2012)

Natural selection. IV. The Price equation* ⬇️

scientific article published on April 5, 2012

Natural selection. VI. Partitioning the information in fitness and characters by path analysis.

scientific article published on 21 January 2013

Natural selection. VII. History and interpretation of kin selection theory ⬇️

scientific article published on May 13, 2013

Nonheritable cellular variability accelerates the evolutionary processes of cancer

scientific article

Pathogen escape from host immunity by a genome program for antigenic variation

scholarly article

Pathogenesis, virulence, and infective dose

scientific article

Pathology from evolutionary conflict, with a theory of X chromosome versus autosome conflict over sexually antagonistic traits.

scientific article

Polymorphism of attack and defense

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

Population and quantitative genetics of regulatory networks.

scientific article published on April 1999

Programmed cell death and hybrid incompatibility

scientific article published in March 2003

Puzzles in modern biology. I. Male sterility, failure reveals design ⬇️

scientific article

Puzzles in modern biology. II. Language, cancer and the recursive processes of evolutionary innovation ⬇️

scientific article published on 9 September 2016

Puzzles in modern biology. III.Two kinds of causality in age-related disease.

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

Puzzles in modern biology. IV. Neurodegeneration, localized origin and widespread decay. ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Puzzles in modern biology. V. Why are genomes overwired?

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

Quantifying interhospital patient sharing as a mechanism for infectious disease spread

scientific article

Sexual antagonism leads to a mosaic of X-autosome conflict

scientific article published on 11 January 2020

Somatic mosaicism and cancer: inference based on a conditional Luria-Delbrück distribution

scientific article published in August 2003

Somatic mosaicism and disease.

scientific article

Somatic mutation of p53 leads to estrogen receptor alpha-positive and -negative mouse mammary tumors with high frequency of metastasis

scientific article published in May 2004

Somatic mutation: early cancer steps depend on tissue architecture

scientific article (publication date: April 2003)

Somatic selection for and against cancer

scientific article published in December 2003

Specific and non-specific defense against parasitic attack.

scientific article

Specificity versus detectable polymorphism in host-parasite genetics

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Stochastic elimination of cancer cells

scientific article

The Fundamental Equations of Change in Statistical Ensembles and Biological Populations

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

The Price Equation Program: Simple Invariances Unify Population Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Probability, Information and Inference

scientific article published on 16 December 2018

The common patterns of abundance: the log series and Zipf's law

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

The common patterns of nature.

scientific article

The design of adaptive systems: optimal parameters for variation and selection in learning and development.

scientific article published in January 1997

The invariances of power law size distributions.

scientific article published on 25 August 2016

The origin of synergistic symbiosis

scientific article published in October 1995

The probability of severe disease in zoonotic and commensal infections

scientific article

The trade-off between rate and yield in the design of microbial metabolism

scientific article published in March 2010

Universal expressions of population change by the Price equation: Natural selection, information, and maximum entropy production

scientific article

When to copy or avoid an opponent's strategy

scientific article published in July 1990

Within-host dynamics of antigenic variation

scientific article

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