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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.
August 29, 2006
Category: Anti-Science
The Panda's Thumb is compiling a chapter by chapter rebuttal of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design. This book is part of a series of shoddy academic endeavors that includes The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History;...
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August 28, 2006
Category: Blog Carnivals
This is a reminder that I will be hosting the fifth edition of Mendel's Garden. Mendel's Garden is a blog carnival devoted to genetics. If you have written a genetics related entry on your blog and would like it...
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August 25, 2006
Category: Academia
As a fledgling scientist, I am not privy to the process of grant view. It may as well occur behind a green curtain, and all I get to see is the hologram of the intimidating wizard in the form of...
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Category: Phylogenetics
Last week's Phylogeny Friday introduced the three domains of life: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. The bacteria and archaea are commonly referred to as prokaryotes, although that creates a paraphyletic taxon. Today, we will focus on the eukaryotes (organisms with nuclei...
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August 24, 2006
Category: Science Education
A couple of people are talking about this Wall Street Journal article which claims that Republicans are popping out more babies that Democrats, and this disparity will lead to an relative increase in the frequency of Republicans. It's been pointed...
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Category: Science Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported earlier this week that the U.S. Department of Education neglected to include "Evolutionary Biology" in it's list of eligible majors for the new Smart Grant program (the NYTimes and New Scientist also report on...
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Category: Evolution
In last week's edition of Phylogeny Fridays, I mentioned an essay that argued that biologists should refrain from using the term "prokaryote" because its definition is entirely negative. The author, Norman Pace, writes, "no one can define what is a...
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Category: Genetics
Jim Crow has published a perspective in Genetics on his favorite reviewers from 1952-1956 when he was associate editor of the journal. He prefaces it by writing: As far as I can ascertain, the editorial correspondence from that period is...
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August 23, 2006
Category: Biology
To be filed under: "Every dude who's gone swimming in a cold pool in the Hamptons could have told you that." Polar bear genitals are shrinking: The icecap may not be the only thing shrinking in the Arctic. The genitals...
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Category: Anti-Science
I gave Lawrence Krauss some shit regarding his double standard towards the tolerance of willful ignorance. He's cool with calling intelligent design proponents ignorant, but won't go all the way and say all religion is anti-knowledge. Judging by the letters...
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