Mastodawn

If there were only some theory that helped explain where "perceptual origins" come from.. #co-evolution ref www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Timbral effects on consonance ...

Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales - Nature Communications

Consonance is crucial to diverse musical styles and is traditionally attributed to simple frequency ratios between tones. Here, the authors show timbral effects on consonance that challenge this view and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales.

Nature

Protyus A. Gendher Mar 21

#dependency #variable #coevolution

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/03/21/panthenogenesis-of-power-post-2-the-co-evolution-of-humans-food-and-dependency/

Panthenogenesis of Power – Post 2 — The Co‑Evolution of Humans, Food, and Dependency

This post explores the co-evolution of humans and food, highlighting the journey from ecological dependency to structural control. Initially, dependency was a shared, relational experience rooted i…

Survivor Literacy

Molecular Biology & Evolution Dec 2

Macit et aL investigated selection in response to climate and a geographic mosaic of coevolution between two ant species, a social parasite and its host.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf293

#evobio #molbio #coevolution

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈Nov 24

Treating emergent traits of the microbiome like quantitative genetic traits of the host reveals how environmentally acquired symbionts can contribute to hosts' adaptation

https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf171

#science #evolution #microbiome #coevolution

Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits

Microbiomes, the complex communities of microorganisms associated with multicellular hosts, play a vital role in shaping host traits and fitness. But how d

OUP Academic

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈Nov 17

Nifty preprint with an experiment coevolving Brassica rapa with pollinating, herbivorous butterflies. With bumblebee co-pollinators or heat stress added, the plants evolved stronger anti-herbivore defense; with both bees and heat, they evolved... to attract butterflies?

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.06.686912

#science #coevolution #pollination

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 4

“Many contemporary #socialscience approaches ignore the #coevolutionary framework, instead focusing too much on linear regressions. Our world is better understood through #complex #reciprocal #interactions.” (More from the #BrianKlaas piece on #coevolution) open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

"Good Heavens what insect can ...

"Good Heavens what insect can suck it?"

The stranger-than-fiction miracles of coevolution in nature and human society. (Or: what connects avocados, ants who farm fungus, karma, and our relationship with dogs?)

The Garden of Forking Paths

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 4

Apparently there really are #zombies. Zombie #ants, that is. This piece on #coevolution by #BrianKlaas is fascinating. open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈Oct 31

Experimentally co-evolved E. coli and yeast achieve stable coexistence — and the coevolved E. coli, but not the yeast, is able to resist invasion by other bacterial strains

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-025-02618-w

#science #evolution #coevolution #ecology

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈Sep 30, 2025

So this came online over the weekend: My dive into the "definition" of coevolution is online ahead of publication in @journal_evo

Don’t ask "when is it coevolution?" — ask "how?"

https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf194

#science #evolution #ecology #SpeciesInteractions #coevolution #history

Don’t ask “when is it coevolution?” — ask “how?”

Abstract. Coevolution has come to be widely understood as specific, simultaneous, reciprocal adaptation by pairs of interacting species. This strict-sense

OUP Academic