Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

A long-standing problem in evolutionary theory is to clarify in what sense (if any) natural
selection cumulatively improves the design of organisms. Various concepts, such as fitness …

A fundamental goal of microbial ecology is to understand what determines the diversity,
stability, and structure of microbial ecosystems. The microbial context poses special …

The temperature dependence of highly conserved subcellular metabolic systems affects
ecological patterns and processes across scales, from organisms to ecosystems. Population …

Evolutionary transitions in individuality are central to the emergence of biological complexity.
Recent experiments provide glimpses of processes underpinning the transition from single …

Abstract Models in evolutionary game theory traditionally assume symmetric interactions in
homogeneous environments. Here, we consider populations evolving in a heterogeneous …

Interactions among microbial cells can generate new chemistries and functions, but
exploitation requires establishment of communities that reliably recapitulate community-level …

From the perspectives of molecular biology, genetics and biothermodynamics, SARS-CoV-2
is the among the best characterized viruses. Research on SARS-CoV-2 has shed a new …

A fitness landscape is a map between the genotype and its reproductive success in a given
environment. The topography of fitness landscapes largely governs adaptive dynamics …

The study of evolutionary dynamics increasingly relies on computational methods, as more
and more cases outside the range of analytical tractability are explored. The computational …