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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.
June 29, 2006
Category: Science Education
The ScienceBlogs Donor's Choose Blogger Challenge is nearing completion. You have until July 1 to donate to the evolgen challenge and forward your confirmation email to this address if you want to win any of the awesome prizes. If we...
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Category: Anti-Science
They showed us the movie Flock of Dodos at the Evolution Meeting. Randy Olson (the director) was also there to field questions. So was Eugenie Scott. Someone asked about scientists boycotting the Kansas Kangaroo Court. Olson thought it was a...
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June 28, 2006
Category: Admin
I got back from the Evolution Meeting late last night. The first thing on my docket was clearing flies so I could collect virgins this morning. The rest of this week will be spent getting myself back up to speed....
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June 26, 2006
Category: Admin
I said, "You probably won't see any new posts until later next week." Well, today is later this week than yesterday. Also, this post hardly counts as anything new. As you will see, it's a link to all the evolgen...
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June 25, 2006
Category: Evolution
Blogging's been light recently. I spent the last week frantically preparing my talk for the Evolution Meeting. I was analyzing data until late Thursday evening. Then, I still needed to finish putting together my talk. We spent Friday driving to...
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June 22, 2006
Category: Blog Carnivals
Hsien Lei will be hosting the second edition of Mendel's Garden at Genetics and Health. Submission information is available here....
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June 20, 2006
Category: Admin
In case you forgot, the evolgen DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge is still going on. My great readers have donated $135 towards public science education (as of 8:00am on June 20). That's 27% of the way towards our goal of $500. There...
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Category: Academia
Two months ago, I wrote about Teri Markow resigning as President of the Society for the Study of Evolution in protest of the appointment of the new Editor in Chief. Long story short, Markow was unhappy that women were not...
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June 19, 2006
Category: Booze
Humans have been genetically engineering agricultural crops ever since plants were domesticated. Notice the difference between maize and teosinte. Or how about what we have done to create modern wheat. By either imposing an artificial selection pressure on a few...
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Category: Anti-Science
The Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity [sic] (aka, Doctors Doubting Darwin) are planning to Resolve the Conflict between Darwin and Design. Something tells me the conflict will not be resolved using rational discourse, but rather apologetics and obfuscation. I...
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