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.
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January 31, 2006
Category: Admin • Genetics • 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: Admin • 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 • Science News
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 • Science Education • Science Policy • Statistics
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: Evolution • Molecular Evolution • 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 • Population Genetics
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...
Posted by RPM at 9:57 AM • 0 Comments
January 18, 2006
Category: Admin • 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 . . ....
Posted by RPM at 9:51 AM • 0 Comments
January 17, 2006
Category: Biology • Evolution • Genetics
Chad at Uncertain Principles, one of my ScienceBlogs siblings, is requesting his co-bloggers suggest the most important experiment or discovery in their field. There are a disproportionate amount of "bio-bloggers" -- though we each have our own niche -- and...
Posted by RPM at 5:29 PM • 14 Comments
Category: Drosophila • Evolution • Genetics • Molecular Evolution • Population Genetics
PZ Myers is reposting some of his greatest hits from the old Pharyngula website to his new digs at ScienceBlogs. In one post he gets into the deficiencies of modern evolutionary theory using West-Eberhard's book as a guide. I agree...
Posted by RPM at 8:27 AM • 3 Comments
January 15, 2006
Category: Admin
I'm still getting used to the Movable Type interface that ScienceBlogs is using (it's a bit different than Blogger), and some of the changes may be noticible to you, my readers. For one, I've been dividing my posts into the...
Posted by RPM at 3:53 PM • 4 Comments
January 14, 2006
Category: Admin
I previously remarked that I would be posting my series "Detecting Natural Selection" over at the old site. Well, as the title of this post indicates, I changed my mind. The newest installment of "Detecting Natural Selection" has been posted...
Posted by RPM at 11:26 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Evolution • Genetics • Population Genetics • Statistics
Nucleotide Polymorphism and Selection This is the seventh of multiple postings I plan to write about detecting natural selection using molecular data (ie, DNA sequences). The introduction can be found here. The first post described the organization of the genome,...
Posted by RPM at 11:23 PM • 2 Comments
January 13, 2006
Category: Evolution
Paul Nurse, president of Rockefeller University, has a commentary (I believe it requires a subscription) in this week's issue of Cell. Within his essay he lays out some of the impediments to biomedical research in America. He starts by explaining...
Posted by RPM at 9:45 AM • 1 Comments
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