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Accelerated Evolution -- yet again
Category: Population Genetics
Can positive selection drown out neutral evolution?
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 7 Comments
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December 28, 2007
Phylogeny Friday -- 28 December 2007
Category: Drosophila • Phylogenetics
Historical Inaccuracy Edition A lot of us who work in well established biological systems take for granted how those systems were first discovered or established. Sometimes this involves the choice by an individual to begin studying development using a small...
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 0 Comments
December 21, 2007
Why Accelerated Adaptive Evolution isn't Faster Evolution
Category: Evolution • Population Genetics • Science News
The population genetics of neutral mutations and beneficial mutations.
Posted by RPM at 6:15 PM • 6 Comments
December 14, 2007
Recent Accelerated Adaptive Evolution in Humans
Category: Population Genetics
For those of you interested in recent adaptive evolution in some insignificant bipedal primate, John Hawks and pals have published a paper in PNAS describing something you'll find interesting.
Posted by RPM at 8:00 AM • 11 Comments
December 10, 2007
Sciencedebate 2008
Category: Science Policy
A Call for a Presidential Debate on Science and Technology
Posted by RPM at 2:00 PM • 0 Comments
December 9, 2007
Where does your funding come from?
Category: Academia • Biology • Science Policy
NIH funding versus NSF funding.
Posted by RPM at 12:00 PM • 7 Comments
December 5, 2007
Genetics Links
Category: Genetics • Genomics • Science News
A cool search tool and some good genetics blogging.
Posted by RPM at 12:00 PM • 0 Comments
December 4, 2007
Geese, Ganders, and Genomes
Category: Drosophila • Evolution • Genomics • Molecular Evolution • Population Genetics
Sex-biased genes and sex chromosomes.
Posted by RPM at 8:00 AM • 5 Comments
December 3, 2007
What's the deal with "virgin birth" (parthenogenesis)?
Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger • Biology • Evolution • Genetics
Not all animals must have sex with another individual to produce perfectly viable offspring. And neither do humans, thanks to technological breakthroughs in artificial insemination. But what about those critters that do not require masturbation and meat basters to...
Posted by RPM at 9:00 AM • 9 Comments
December 2, 2007
The Ethics of Being an Open Access Publisher
Category: Academia • Open Access
BioMed Central, The Open Access Publisher, produces paid access content.
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 7 Comments
