A general problem in biology is how to incorporate information about evolutionary history
and adaptation into taxonomy. The problem is exemplified in attempts to define our own …

A comprehensive literature survey on approaches for mining software repositories (MSR) in
the context of software evolution is presented. In particular, this survey deals with those …

Highlights•We explain how the adaptive response aspect of organizational resilience is an
evolutionary process of variation, selection and retention.•The evolutionary process is …

Variation in subsistence-related material culture is an important aspect of the archaeological
and ethnographic records, but the factors that are responsible for it remain unclear. Here, we …

Archaeologists disagree about how farming began in Britain. Some argue it was a result of
indigenous groups adopting domesticates and cultigens via trade and exchange. Others …

Cladistic analysis of cranial and dental evidence has been widely used to generate
phylogenetic hypotheses about humans and their fossil relatives. However, the reliability of …

The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about ad 750–
1050) was a far-flung transformation in world history 1, 2. Here we sequenced the genomes …

The SAND domain is a conserved sequence motif found in a number of nuclear proteins,
including the Sp100 family and NUDR. These are thought to play important roles in …

The debate on the evolution of culture has focused on two processes in particular,
phylogenesis and ethnogenesis. Recently, it has been suggested that the latter has …

A number of taxonomies to classify and categorize software visualization systems have been
proposed in the past. Most notable are those presented by Price (1993) and Roman (1993) …