Fabrizio Serra · Editore · Pisa · Roma

116, 1-2/2023
Pp. 108

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Editorial; Articles: Fabien Génin, Hajarimanitra Rambeloarivony†, Daniele Silvestro, Judith C. Masters, Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Mating Behaviour: Social Heterochrony in Primate; David Lambert, Judith Masters, Fabien Génin. Obituary for Two Unique and Talented Evolutionary Biologists; Ehud Lamm, Sophie Juliane Veigl, A Third Way to the Selected Effect/Causal Role Distinction in the Great Encode Debate; Koen B. Tanghe, Did Dawkins Recant His Selfish Gene Argument Against Group Selection?; Robert Bligh Toms, Origin of Insect Wings, Metamorphosis, Pupae and The Major Insect Orders; Instructions for Authors.

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115, 1-2/2022
Pp. 152

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Editorial; Articles: Erik L. Peterson, The Third-Way Third Wave and the Enduring Appeal of Bioexceptionalism; Denis Noble, Raymond Noble, Origins and Demise of Selfish Gene Theory (Open Access); Denis Noble, George Ellis, Biological Relativity Revisited: the Pre-Eminent Role of Values (Open Access); Keith Baverstock, Evolution in Two Parts: as Seen in a New Framework for Biology; Peter A. Corning, The Synergism Hypothesis (Revisited): A Theory Whose Time Has Come?; Arnold De Loof, The Mega-Evolution of Life Depends on Sender-Receiver Communication and Problem-Solving (Open Access); Kalevi Kull, The Aim of Extended Synthesis is to Include Semiosis; Ascensión Ariza-Mateos, Celia Perales, Esteban Domingo, Jordi Gómez, Application of Archaeological Concepts to the Interpretation of RNA Virus Quasispecies Evolution; Instructions for Authors.

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114, 2/2021
Pp. 68

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Editorial; Articles: James A. Shapiro, Why the Third Way of Evolution is Necessary; Peter Saunders, Random Variations, Gradualism and the Role of Natural Selection; Guenther Witzany, Preliminary Remarks to an Integrative Theory of Evolution; Instructions for Authors.

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Open Access issue
114, 1/2021
Pp. 124

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Editorial; Introduction; Articles: Minzhen Xie, Haiyan Liu, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Nonparametric Clustering for Longitudinal Functional Data with the Application to HNMR Spectra of Kidney Transplant Patients. Longitudinal Functional Data Clustering; Zhujie Gu, Said el Bouhaddani, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Hae-Won Uh, Investigating the Impact of Down Syndrome on Methylation and Glycomics with Two-stage PO2PLS; Annah Mwikali Muli, Arief Gusnanto, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Use of Shared Gamma Frailty Model in Analysis of Survival Data in Twins; Angga M. Fuady, Said el Bouhaddani, Hae-Won Uh, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Estimation of the Effect of Surrogate Multi-Omic Biomarkers; Sonia Dembowska, Alex Frangi, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Haiyan Liu, Multivariate Functional Partial Least Squares for Classification Using Longitudinal Data; Iva Budimir, Claudia Sala, Maria Giulia Bacalini, Paolo Garagnani, Gastone Castellani, DNA Methylation Correlation Structure of Chromosome 21 in Down Syndrome; Instructions for Authors.

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113, 1-2/2020
Pp. 116

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Editorial; Articles: Francesca Monti, A Remark on a Dynamical Stochastic Model in G. V. Schiaparelli’s Evolution Theory; Andrea Amadei, Massimiliano Aschi, A General Model for Covid-19 Epidemic Kinetics: Application to Italian And German Data; Armando Bazzani, Enrico Lunedei, Sandro Rambaldi, A Stochastic Compartmental Model to Simulate the Covid-19 Epidemic Spread on a Simple Network; Dur e Nishwa, Hafiza Arooba Riaz, Ameer Fatima, Braira Wahid, An Update on Sars-Cov-2: a Review; Points of view: Evolutionary Biology and Species: David M. Lambert, Craig D. Millar, Gimme Walter, Scientific and Personal Reflections on an Iconoclastic Thinker in Evolutionary Biology: Hugh Edward Haldane Paterson; Hamish G. Spencer, A Further Perspective on Speciation by Reinforcement; James P. Hereward, Dean R. Brookes, Gimme H. Walter, The Recognition Concept and Genetic Approaches to Interpreting Species; Judith C. Masters, Fabien Génin, There’s no Evolution Without Co-evolution: Dialectics and Dualism Drive Diversity; Ecology: Gimme H. Walter, The Recognition Concept, Idealisms and Ecology; Applied Biology: Michelle A. Rafter, S. Raghu, Paterson’s Recognition Concept and the Practice of Biological Control; Chris R. Pavey, The Recognition Concept and Conservation Management of Species; Maureen Coetzee, The On-going Problem of Anopheles Mosquito Species in Africa; Theoretical and Personal Issues: Charles Parry, A True Liberal; Robert Toms, Hugh Patterson and the Origin of Insect Metamorphosis; Instructions for Authors.

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112, 1-2/2019
Pp. 116

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Editorial. «Theoretical Biology Forum». The Next Century; Articles: Armando Bazzani, Raffaele D’Ambrosio, Paolo Freguglia, Ezio Venturino, Maddalena Del Gallo, Claudia Ercole, Federica Matteucci, A Dynamical Model for Sympatric Speciation in an Ecological Niche; Joseph Hannon, ‘The Genome Wager’ at its Midpoint: Implications for Developmental Biology; Morris Laster, Imad J. Matouk, Yakov Fellig, Abraham Hochberg, When Cancer Meets Quantum Mechanics; Yun Hee Lee, Colin Mayer, Denis Noble, David Vines, Against the Microfoundation Hegemony: Cooperation in Biology, Business and Economics; Snežana M. Stanić, Sanja Lj. Matić, The Biology and Theories of Aging; Points o f view: Wayne Waxman, Kant and Contemporary Science; Reviews essay: Antonio Lima-de-Faria, Darwinism will Prevail, but for how long? A review essay of Suzan Mazur, Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology; Instructions for Authors.

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111, 1-2/2018
Pp. 128

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Editorial. Preface to a New Century of «Theoretical Biology Forum»; Articles: Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Endogenosymbiosis: from Hypothesis to Empirical Evidence towards a Unified Symbiogenetic Theory (UST); Henri Laurie, Ezio Venturino, A Two-Predator One-Prey Model of Population Dynamics Influenced by Herd Behaviour of the Prey; Valter Lubrano, Luc Zym, Silvana Balzan, Neutrophyl to Lymphocyte Ratio and C Reactive Protein are Indipendent Predictors of Severe Coronary Artery Disease: Comparison with Hydroperoxides and Consolidated Inflammatory Markers; Rudina Ndreu, Valter Lubrano, Laura Sabatino, Andrea Ripoli, Giorgio Iervasi, Silvana Balzan, Angiopoietin-2: a Biomarker in Hyperthyroidism; Selda Tez M. D., Mesut Tez M. D., Chaotic Adaptation Theory (CAT) for Cancer: A Lamarckian View; Points of view: Gillian Beer, Reflections on the Power of Darwin's Writing in our Culture; Claire Bowern, Unanswered Problems in Language Evolution; Antonio Lima-de-Faria, Truth is not for Sale. The Principles that Unite Science and Art; Judith C. Masters and Fabien Génin, The Recognition Concept of Species, Decades on; Richard Potts, New Developments in Sediment Coring and Implications for Understanding Human Evolution; Peter T. Saunders, The Evolutionary Paradigm is Changing; Peter R. Wills, Life's Most Distinguishing Feature: Meaningful Information Processing; Instructions for Authors.

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110, 1-2/2017
Pp. 124

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Editorial. Our Coming 100th Anniversary; Articles: Silvana Balzan, Laura Sabatino, Valter Lubrano, Lectin-like Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor (Lox-1), Thyroid Hormone (T3) And Reactive Oxygen Species (Ros): Possible Cross-talk in Angiogenesis; Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Adaptation, Evolution and Reproduction of Gaia by the Means of our Species; Michael A. Flannery, Toward a New Evolutionary Synthesis; Elisa Guidi, Patrizia Meringolo, Andrea Guazzini, Franco Bagnoli, Intimate Partner Violence: A Stochastic Model; Sergio Pennazio, Photosynthesis: from De Saussure to Liebig; Instructions for Authors.

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109, 1-2/2016
Pp. 164

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Editorial; Articles: Massimiliano Aschi, Andrea Amadei, The Perfect Enzyme: Revisiting the Modelling of Initial Proton Transfer in Triosephosphate Isomerase; Armando Bazzani, Claudia Sala, Enrico Giampieri, Gastone Castellani, Master Equation and Relative Species Abundance Distribution for Lotka-Volterra Models of Interacting Ecological Communities; Balasubramanian Chandramouli, Giordano Mancini, Cherry-Picking Functionally Relevant Substates from Long MD Trajectories Using a Stratified Sampling Approach; Fred W. Cummings, Early Metazoan Development: the Origin of the Cambrian Exuberance; Paolo Freguglia, A (Historical) Remark on the Darwin-Schiaparelli Evolution Theory; Antonio Lima-De-Faria, Order is Present at every Level but is not Total; Michael Ruse, L'etat, c'est moi. Fifty Years of History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology; Peter T. Saunders, Beyond the Neo-Darwinist Paradigm; Masomeh Taherian, Megerdich Toomanian, Mohammadreza Molaei, Two Dynamical Models for Cholera; Mesut Tez M. D., Selda Tez M. D., Cancer is The Chaotic Search For Adaptation To Previously Unknown Environments; Instructions for Authors.

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108, 1-2/2015
Pp. 156

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Editorial; Note: Armando Bazzani, Dynamical Systems on Graphs: from Random Walks to Transportation Networks; Articles: Pieranna Fietta, Elvira Costa, Giovanni Delsante, Interleukins (ILS), a Fascinating Family of Cytokines. Part II: ILS from IL–20 to IL–38; Sumbul Firdaus, Anupam Dhasmana, Shafiul Haque, Snober S Mir, Roshan Jahan, Tasneem Bano, Vandana Srivastava, Saif Khan, Mohtashim Lohani, Interaction Pattern of Fullerenes (C20–C180) and Carbon Nanotubes with Different Forms of DNA: A Computational Biology Approach; Yi Fu, Zhiguo Chen, Ji Zhao, Molecular Dynamics Simulation to Elucidate the Thermostability of B Domain in CGTase; Valter Lubrano, Elena Venturi, Silvana Balzan, Simona Baldi, Andrea Natali, Impact of Risk Factor for Atherosclerosis on Microvascular Endothelial Function: an in vitro Study; Aisha Munawar, Ahmed Akrem, Ashiq Hussain, Patrick Spencer, Christian Betzel, Molecular Model of Cytotoxin–1 from Naja mossambica mossambica Venom in Complex with Chymotrypsin; Sergio Pennazio, The Concept of Plant Life: the Dawn; Franco Spirito, The Establishment of Prezygotic Reproductive Isolation in Some Simple Models; Instructions for Authors.

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107, 1-2/2014
Pp. 180

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Editorial; Articles: Pieranna Fietta, Elvira Costa, Giovanni Delsante, Interleukins (ILS), a Fascinating Family of Cytokines. Part I: ILS from IL-1 to IL-19; Katell Guizien, Lorenzo Bramanti, Modelling Ecological Complexity for Marine Species Conservation: the Effect of Variable Connectivity on Species Spatial Distribution and Age-structure; Gianluca Martelloni, Alisa Santarlasci, Franco Bagnoli, Giacomo Santini, Modeling Ant Battles by Means of a Diffusion-Limited Gillespie Algorithm; Giulia Menichetti, Daniel Remondini, Entropy of a Network Ensemble: Definitions and Applications to Genomic Data; Marco Pellegrini, Giuseppe Pirillo, On the Dinucleotide Circular Codes of Maximum Cardinality; Sergio Pennazio, Elements of Plant Physiology in Theophrastus' Botany; Dusan Ristanovic, Bratislav D. Stefanovic, Nela Puskas, Fractal Analysis of Dendrite Morphology of Rotated Neuronal Pictures: The Modified Box Counting Method; Alessia Rossi, Simone Panigada, Massimo Arrigoni, Margherita Zanardelli, Cristina Cimmino, Luigi Marangi, Piero Manfredi, Giovanni Santangelo, Demography and Conservation of the Mediterranean Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus):What Clues can be obtained from Photo-Identification Data; Sureyya Mert Selimoglu, Conscience Dilemma: to become a Bioengineer or to survive as a Biologist; Masomeh Taherian, Megerdich Toomanian, Mohammadreza Molaei, A Dynamical Model for Influenza under Seasonal Variables; Armando Bazzani, Paolo Freguglia, Dynamics on Genes Network Structures. An Ago-Antagonist Approach; Instructions for Authors.

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106, 1-2/2013
Pp. 176

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Editorial: Armando Bazzani, Paolo Freguglia, Darwinian Evolution and Economics: Perspectives; Letter to the editors: Youhua Chen, Species-area Relationship is Overestimated Using Distributional Range Maps; Articles: Armando Bazzani, Paolo Freguglia, Ago-Antagonist Theory in Darwinian Evolution; Vicente Dressino, Susana Gisela Lamas, A Theoretical Characterization of Morphofunctional and Developmental Modules: An Approach to the Study of the Craniofacial Complex; Marta Bertolaso, Breaking Down Levels of Biological Organization; Michael M. Lieber, New Practical and Theoretical Approaches to the Induction of Morphogenesis from Plant Tumors In Vitro Using New Types of Plant Growth Regulators: Towards Constructive Paradigms in Agriculture and Medicine; Sara Campanella, As the Environment Becomes Organism. About the Darwin- Wagner Debate; Pieranna Fietta, Giovanni Delsante, Focus on Adipokines; Sergio Balari, Guillermo Lorenzo, Richard Owen on the Mind/Body Problem; Mario Graziano, Philosophy of Biology. Is there still a Need for Philosophy?; Dušan Ristanovic, Bratislav D. Stefanovic, Nela Puškaš, Fractal Analysis of Dendrites Morphology Using Modified Richardson's and Box Counting Method.

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105, 2/2012
Pp. 128

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Editorial: Paolo Freguglia, Mathematical, Computational and Physical Tools for Theoretical Biology; Articles: Matej Plankar, Emilio Del Giudice, Alberto Tedeschi, Igor Jerman, The Role of Coherence in a Systems View of Cancer Development; Gianluca Martelloni, Franco Bagnoli, Stefano Marsili Libelli, A Dynamical Population Modeling of Invasive Species with Reference to the Crayfish Procambarus Clarkii; Anna Maria Caroli, Flavia Pizzi, Livestock Biodiversity: from Genes to Animal Products through Safeguard Actions; Sergio Pennazio, Metals Essential for Plants: the Nickel Case; Dušan Ristanovic, Nebojša T. Miloševic, Fractal Analysis: Methodologies for Biomedical Researchers.

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105, 1/2012
Pp. 128

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Editorial: Silvano Traverso, Electrical by-products?; letter to the editors Dewu Ding, Long Ying, Are cellular networks really self-similar?; Articles: Alexander N. Kuznetsov, Five longitudes in chordate body; Giorgio Bianciardi, Claudio Traversi, Ruggero Cattaneo, Claudio De Felice, Annalisa Monaco, Gianmarco Tosi, Stefano Parrini, Giuseppe Latini, Phase transition of the microvascular network architecture in human pathologies; Sergio Pennazio, Humus: latent phase and reality; Chiranjib Chakraborty, Bimal Kumar Sarkar, Pratiksha Patel, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Information processing in network architecture of genome controlled signal transduction circuit. A proposed theoretical explanation; Annamaria Passantino, Alessandra Fazio, Valeria Quartatone, Pain in veterinary medicine in the new millennium; Pierluigi Fietta, Pieranna Fietta, Cognition: Neurobiological correlates and dynamics.

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104, 2/2011
Pp. 92

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Editorial: Giuseppe Damiani, Lamarckian evolution: the dark side of the biology; Letters to the editors: Mesut Tez, Complex system perspective in colorectal carcinogenesis; Dewu Ding, Of Fish and Men: A comparative study for genome-scale metabolic networks; Articles: Federico Morganti, Intelligence as the plasticity of instinct: George J. Romanes and Darwin's earthworms; Sergio Pennazio, The dawn of photosynthesis; Perspectives: Alessandro Morelli, Silvia Ravera, Daniela Calzia, Isabella Panfoli, Exportability of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation machinery into myelin sheath.; Silvano Traverso, Mechanical signalling in tissues and its possible role in nociception.

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104, 1/2011
Pp. 112

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Editorial: Silvano Traverso, In Praise of Contamination; Articles: Lev V. Beloussov, Nomothetics and Idiography in Developmental Biology; Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Evolution is a Cooperative Process: The Biodiversityrelated Niches Differentiation Theory (BNDT) Can Explain Why; Sergio Pennazio, Viruses: Are They Living Entities?; Juan Mei, Xiaojian Yang and Weican Zhou, Revealing Remote Protein Homology with Sequence Similarity and a Modularity-based Approach; Pierluigi Fietta, Pieranna Fietta, The Neurobiology of the Human Memory; Perspectives: Michael Lieber, The Problem of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. The Important Role of Environmentally Responsive Mutagenesis, Its Relevance to a New Paradigm that May Allow a Solution.

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