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  1. Adaptationism and the adaptive landscape.Jon F. Wilkins & Peter Godfrey-Smith - 2009 - Biology and Philosophy 24 (2):199-214.
    Debates over adaptationism can be clarified and partially resolved by careful consideration of the ‘grain’ at which evolutionary processes are described. The framework of ‘adaptive landscapes’ can be used to illustrate and facilitate this investigation. We argue that natural selection may have special status at an intermediate grain of analysis of evolutionary processes. The cases of sickle-cell disease and genomic imprinting are used as case studies.
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    Adaptationism.Peter Godfrey-Smith & Jon F. Wilkins - 2008 - In Sahorta Sarkar & Anya Plutynski (eds.), Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Blackwell. pp. 186–201.
    This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Development of the Debate Varieties of Adaptationism The Role of Zoom and Grain References.
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    The evolving landscape of imprinted genes in humans and mice: Conflict among alleles, genes, tissues, and kin.Jon F. Wilkins, Francisco Úbeda & Jeremy Van Cleve - 2016 - Bioessays 38 (5):482-489.
    Three recent genome‐wide studies in mice and humans have produced the most definitive map to date of genomic imprinting (gene expression that depends on parental origin) by incorporating multiple tissue types and developmental stages. Here, we explore the results of these studies in light of the kinship theory of genomic imprinting, which predicts that imprinting evolves due to differential genetic relatedness between maternal and paternal relatives. The studies produce a list of imprinted genes with around 120–180 in mice and ∼100 (...)
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    Science and technology consortia in U.S. biomedical research: A paradigm shift in response to unsustainable academic growth.Curt Balch, Hugo Arias-Pulido, Soumya Banerjee, Alex K. Lancaster, Kevin B. Clark, Michael Perilstein, Brian Hawkins, John Rhodes, Piotr Sliz, Jon Wilkins & Thomas W. Chittenden - 2015 - Bioessays 37 (2):119-122.
    Graphical AbstractScience and technology consortia provide a viable solution for the recent unsustainable academic growth in biomedical research.
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    Sex‐biased migration in humans: what should we expect from genetic data?Jon F. Wilkins & Frank W. Marlowe - 2006 - Bioessays 28 (3):290-300.
    Different patterns of mitochondrial and Y-chromosome diversity have been cited as evidence of long-term patrilocality in human populations. However, what patterns are expected depends on the nature of the sampling scheme. Samples from a local region reveal only the recent demographic history of that region, whereas sampling over larger geographic scales accesses older demographic processes. A historical change in migration becomes evident first at local geographic scales, and alters global patterns of genetic diversity only after sufficient time has passed. Analysis (...)
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