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AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
We talk about molecular population and evolutionary GENETICS and GENOMICS. You know, the caliper measurement of a gene's evolvability in moles.
Eschewing obfuscation ever since Morgan.
January 31, 2006
Category: Genomics
This blog doesn't seem to want to write itself. I've got a few posts in the pipeline (including the next on detecting natural selection), but I can't seem to finish them. I'm in this writing funk where I start to...
Posted by RPM at 3:39 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 29, 2006
Category: Phylogenetics
I am a big fan of The Science Creative Quarterly. I especially like how they integrate science with humor -- sort of like the Onion, but focused on science. Now they are getting into science education. If you know nothing...
Posted by RPM at 8:58 PM • 2 Comments •
January 27, 2006
Category: Admin
I may not be the oldest of the ScienceBlogs cohort (that's an understatement, by the way), but I do remember the Challenger disaster. I don't remember watching it on TV. I don't remember seeing the explosion on the news. I...
Posted by RPM at 6:45 PM • 3 Comments •
January 26, 2006
Category: Evolution
To be filed under: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. My name is not Inigo Montoya. You did not kill my father. And I couldn't care less if you died...
Posted by RPM at 2:11 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 24, 2006
Category: Biology
If you have not read it, go check out Nicholas Wade's article on doctored images in scientific publications. This is especially pertinent given the recent Hwang Woo Suk stem cell debacle. There is nothing all that revolutionary, but Wade gives...
Posted by RPM at 11:39 AM • 7 Comments •
January 22, 2006
Category: Phylogenetics
Are There Disagreements Between the Fossil Record and Molecular Data? Molecular biologists have a tradition of reworking a lot of the evolutionary relationships and timescales that morphologists and paleontologists worked so hard to figure out. This can really piss off...
Posted by RPM at 10:40 AM • 2 Comments •
January 20, 2006
Category: Genetics
According to Ken Maclean in a letter to Nature, patients don't like it when clever geneticists name genes after cartoon characters, video game characters, and Monty Python characters (see here if you don't follow). I'm not sure if I can...
Posted by RPM at 6:02 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Evolution
The first thing I think when I read the title to this post is, "Man, that's a long friggen title, and it's not at all catchy." The next thing I think is, "I thought I said I wasn't going to...
Posted by RPM at 4:10 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Admin
Just don't let Elaine draw in your eyebrows. The New York Times has an article profiling the advertising side of ScienceBlogs (you know, the thing that allows Seed to provide us with bandwidth so that we can spew our ivory...
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January 18, 2006
Category: Blog Carnivals
Everyone else it advertising it, I might as well: Tangled Bank #45 has been posted at GreyThumb. Nothing else to see here, move along . . ....
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