Even more evidence that developmental bias is correlated with the pattern of (macro)evolution. It is no more questionable that this is a genuine biological pattern. Now it's time to explain. How exciting!

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Using a dataset of wing variation in Drosophila flies, the authors demonstrate that micro- and macroevolution align across levels and they propose multi-directional causal paths to explain the pattern, contributing to the development of a unified theory of evolution. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

wow that's really interesting to hear! What is your field of expertise, if I may ask? As an evolutionary geneticist, this direction started rather spontaneously but the more we learn, the more convincing I am that this is the right thing to do.

thank you for quoting this! It is definitely one of my favourite sentences in this paper ;)

Now online ‪Communications Biology!‬ We showed that variation aligns across biological levels. We proposed that #macroevolution mould #developmentalbias with a cascading effect on variation. #Microevolution, then, may be a result—not a cause of—macroevolution. nature.com/articles/s42...

4 years ago, @anjaligupta.bsky.social spent a summer in Lund and collected amazing data of #damselflies. Now, the data/results are published doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @jevbio.bsky.social ky.social. My highlight: we proposed a way to relate present-day selection #microevolution with #macroevolution.

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Evolution meets physics! Very cool!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

A nice paper @asn-amnat.bsky.social reports that the proxy for net selection and local estimate of selection mismatch. I disagree with their view that local estimates should be used to infer #macroevolution. I think it's the opposite. Nice work, nonetheless. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Pretty excited about this one, where we studied how a fluctuating environment and evolution of plasticity affect character displacement between competing species. Most unexpected result: character displacement can exist for plasticity itself, but it is often convergent rather than divergent.

thank you Diogo! And great to be connected to you! Lately I chat with Anna Penna very often and we talk about you (it seems that we crossed over in QuanGen course in Knoxville many years ago). And I am a fun of many of your papers. Hope to see you in some conferences soon :)

thank you very much for contributing! I look forward to our next collaboration!

Special Issue: Inferring macroevolutionary patterns and processes from microevolutionary mechanisms

Wow! A lot of interesting papers to read in here!

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We are very excited about our new Felsenstein Review, by Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and Lee Hsiang Liow, is now out! Check out the full article here 👉 https://buff.ly/41hpKym

Now our special issue on the relationship between microevolution and macroevolution is online @jevbio.bsky.social! We hope that it marks the beginning of a new era of exciting discoveries.

link to the issue: ow.ly/LHol50UjJql
link to the editorial: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...