Extinct hummingbirds might also have helped determine the shape of some modern Asian and African flowers through a back-and-forth evolutionary process called co-evolution.

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Could blue eyes be another example of the same phenomenon "culture-gene co-evolution"?

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Wallace, who was born in Monmouthshire and also lived in Neath, was the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection.

BBC: Alfred Russel Wallace's 19th Century letters go online

Two traits were needed, says Mr Seabright, to bring the fruits of co-operation within reach, and evolution had equipped humans with both accidentally, as it were.

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Dr Legrand, however, has developed an evolution-based system that co-evolves several channels at a time, allowing a patient to tell his doctor how each pattern of electrode stimulation is faring.

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Dr. Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a keen interest in historical linguistics, is co-founder of a project known as Evolution of Human Languages.

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Forbes.com spoke with Carr about Google's ambition to become the world's computer, the evolution of search into artificial intelligence and Google co-founder Sergey Brin's plan to read our minds.

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During a recent digital conference I had the pleasure of sitting next to Rachael Herrscher, Co-Founder and CEO of TodaysMama and Co-Organizer of the annual evo Conference focused on the evolution of women in social media.

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More recently shares in EcoSecurities, an Irish broker, plunged 47% in November after it disclosed problems in getting approval from the United Nations, which must verify that projects reduce emissions of CO 2 and other greenhouse gases, for carbon-mitigation projects much like those Evolution is chasing in developing countries.

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