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AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
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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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About
Evolution: Change in the genetic makeup of a population over time.
Genetics: The study of heritable variation.
Evolution and genetics are intertwined (along with ecology, physiology, biochemistry, cell and developmental biology) such that it makes little sense to study evolution without studying genetics (the converse is not necessarily true). This site deals with topics in the fields of evolution and genetics, focusing on where they converge -- evolutionary genetics (aka, evolgen).
Rich has a bachelor's degree in biology, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in genetics, studying the evolution of gene order and content. He is interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying the origin of genome rearrangements and how chromosomal aberrations affect nucleotide sequence evolution. His research takes advantage of both computational and molecular tools to examine genomic variation within and between species.
Here is an introduction to evolgen.
And here is a taste of evolgen:
- Best of the Archives
- Human Inversion Under Selection
- The Cambrian Explosion Never Happened
- Chimera
- Can You Marry Your Half-Sister's Daughter?
- Species Sampling for Whole Genome Sequencing
- Mean Fitness, Genetic Load, and the Misapplication of Population Genetics Metrics
- Why Study Speciation Genes?
- There is no Controversy
- More on Misconceptions
- A Taxonomy of Evolutionary Geneticists
- The Evolution of My Thinking about the Evolution of Gene Regulation
- Evolution, the Population Geneticist's Perspective
- Chance, Stochasticity, Probability and Evolution
- Nonoverlapping Magisteria and Extremism
- Speciation, Natural Selection, and Karyotypes
- Mutation
- Science & Technology
- Genome size in reptiles (Part 1, Part 2)
- The Future of Eukaryote Genome Sequencing
- Introduction
- The Organization of the Genome
- The Organization of Genes
- Codon Based Models for Detecting Selection
- Phylogenetics and Relative Rates
- Allele and Genotype Frequencies in Populations
- Calculating Nucleotide Sequence Polymorphism
- Nucleotide Polymorphism and Selection
- Polymorphism and Divergence
Visit the old website for the archived posts.
