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side_view_toon_small.JPG 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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May 31, 2006

The Evolution of My Thinking about the Evolution of Gene Regulation

Category: BiologyConferencesGenomicsMolecular BiologyMolecular EvolutionPopulation Genetics

...or how a learned to stop worrying and love evo-devo. As my mind gets a chance to process some of the stuff I heard and talked about at the meeting I just returned from, I'll post some thoughts that will...

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May 30, 2006

4 eva = one week

Category: Admin

I should be working instead of dicking around on the ole' blog. But, give me a break, I just washed 600 vials. I needed a break. After letting the new ugly banner and stupid name hang around for a week,...

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Spending Other People's Money

Category: Ask A ScienceBloggerScience Policy

Another week, another question from the Seeders. This week they ask us: Since they're funded by taxpayer dollars (through the NIH, NSF, and so on), should scientists have to justify their research agendas to the public, rather than just grant-making...

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May 29, 2006

Detroit Rawk Sit on My Ass

Category: Admin

The meeting went pretty well (I may have more to say later once I've had time to digest everything). When I got to the airport on Sunday, I found out my flight was one hour late. I live in the...

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May 24, 2006

From the Arctic to Hades

Category: Admin

If all has gone well, this post should appear as I'm on my way across the country to John Lynch's neck of the woods. The warmth of the desert should cause quite a shock to my system coming from the...

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May 23, 2006

Once, Twice, Three Times a Name Change

Category: Admin

Given the inability of certain people to differentiate between evolgen and Evolution Blog, we're changing our name. This isn't like the last time we tried to rename ourselves. This is for real . . . and 4 eva. We are...

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Zimmer on Speciation

Category: Speciation

Carl Zimmer has an article in the NYTimes Science section on how humans can interfere with diverging populations, increasing the frequency of hybrids and preventing speciation. He give two examples: three-spine sticklebacks in British Columbia, Canada and ground finches in...

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I am a Gen-X, Soccer Playing, Super Model

Category: AdminPop Culture

While procrastinating (I should be analyzing data for a talk I'm giving on Friday), I stumbled upon this site (via EDSBS, not StumbleUpon). I tried to bypass registration (using BugMeNot), but none of the cheat passwords worked. If you want...

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May 20, 2006

Get it? Got it. Good.

Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger

This week, the SEED kings are asking us: "If you could shake the public and make them understand one scientific idea, what would it be?"...

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May 19, 2006

Phylogeny Friday - 19 May 2006

Category: DrosophilaPhylogenetics

As I mentioned previously, I'm busy preparing some data for a meeting next week. I don't have much time to devote to Phylogeny Friday, so I'll be sharing some of my own data with you. This data is nothing special;...

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Sex, Drugs, and Science

Category: Molecular Biology

My advisor once told me that the best way to get your paper into a high profile journal like Science or Nature is to find the biggest of something, the smallest of something, or something that fucks funny. It turns...

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May 18, 2006

Good News about the NIH Budget

Category: Science Policy

President Bush's FY2007 budget included no increase in funding for the NIH. Scientists have been lobbying Congress to amend the budget to at least increase the NIH budget to keep even with inflation. You can follow the story in these...

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More Opression of the White Man

Category: Pop Culture

Albinos The pigmentally challenged are up in arms over the Da Vinci Code. They say it's unfair that, once again, an albino portrays a villain on screen: Michael McGowan, an albino who heads the National Organization for Albinism and...

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May 17, 2006

You Say Hybridization, Hawks Says Hype

Category: Science NewsSpeciation

John Hawks reads the papers so that I don't have to. Here is Hawks's reply to the human-chimp speciation paper I mentioned in the previous post. The basic conclusion that Hawks reaches: Don't believe the hype. The data analysis...

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Human-Chimp Speciation

Category: Speciation

Humans and chimps did not undergo a speciation event. Some pair of species (one an ancestor of humans, the other of chimps) speciated. It was thought that this event occurred approximately 6.5-7.4 million years ago, based on fossil evidence. A...

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Publishing, Open Access, and Blogs

Category: AcademiaAdmin

PLoS Biology has an article with data that supports the hypothesis that open access articles receive more citations than articles hidden behind a toll (summary available here). The author compared open access and non-open access articles in PNAS, controlling for...

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