Evolution:
Doc Myers has another evo-devo post up; this one is on conserved dorsal-ventral patterning in the vertebrate and arthropod nervous systems. This stuff is fascinating, and Myers does a great job of explaining the research for a general audience. I'd...
Posted on September 13, 2006 10:00 AM • 9 Comments
A few months ago I wrote the following: I should point out that the mammalian Y chromosome is an anomaly in origin and sex determination. In fact, every single sex determination system and sex chromosome system that I know of...
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Posted on September 8, 2006 01:00 PM • 1 Comments
Razib pointed out this blog article on theory in biology. The author deals with three, self defined, points: Unifying theory in biology. Theory vs. experimental biology. Justification through medical applications. His first point, that biology (or a given biological discipline)...
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Posted on September 5, 2006 09:00 AM • 1 Comments
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...
Posted on August 24, 2006 11:00 AM • 3 Comments
There is a good biography of Ernst Mayr in the upcoming issue of Theoretical Population Biology. The author, Eviatar Nevo, provides both a summary of Mayr's work and distills his contributions into categories. I especially like how he explains Mayr's...
Posted on August 16, 2006 08:00 AM • 0 Comments
Razib wants us to come up with 10 assertions of 10 words or less which we believe that the public should know about evolutionary science. He also wants us to come up with our list before looking at his list,...
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Posted on August 14, 2006 02:00 PM • 3 Comments
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...
Posted on June 25, 2006 08:00 AM • 1 Comments
What is evolution? Razib started it. John Hawks joined in. I offered my opinion in the comments on GNXP. But I felt obliged to say more, here. It seems like most of the readers in the ScienceBlogs universe don't understand...
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Posted on June 15, 2006 05:00 PM • 6 Comments
Andy Clark has written a review of comparative evolutionary genomics for Trends in Ecology and Evolution. His review deals with identifying functional regions of the genome and inference of both positively and negatively selected sequences. Clark is one of the...
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Posted on June 15, 2006 09:00 AM • 0 Comments
Read this reply to Francis Collins on Pharyngula. Collins, one of the biggest movers and shakers behind the human genome project, is also Christian and very eager to tell the world about it. Now he's written a book about his...
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Posted on June 14, 2006 10:00 AM • 0 Comments
I've learned that writing about alcohol is great for the ol' site meter. Even the teetotalers got active in the comments. Despite the rampant sobriety that seems to be spreading amongst sciency types, I still believe that alcohol is the...
Posted on June 6, 2006 01:00 PM • 2 Comments
No, Dr. Mayr did not dislike the beach. That's just how all the kids are saying, "You ain't down with the shit I'm doing." Anyway, read this post attacking the physicists for calling us stamp collectors on a blog with...
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Posted on June 5, 2006 08:08 AM • 4 Comments
This post is a bitch-fest. Don't read any further if you have no interest in hearing me complain. The only reason I'm posting this is because I figure some of the people who read this blog find themselves in the...
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Posted on June 3, 2006 12:00 PM • 4 Comments
Bad Astronomy has a rant up on Tony Snow (the new White House Press Secretary) and his creationist tendencies. I won't linger on the political implications of having an anti-science advocates in our government, but one quote from Snow is...
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Posted on May 12, 2006 05:30 AM • 2 Comments
Grrl Scientist got a complementary copy of the Daily Kos science e-book. She's got a review of it here. Does reality have a liberal bias? Anyway, she also got into a screening of Flock of Dodos. She doesn't have a...
Posted on May 6, 2006 01:51 PM • 0 Comments
Via EurekAlert comes this news release on research into error checking during DNA polymerization. I'm not judging the science; I'm judging the reporting, which includes the following statement: Everyone knows mutations - genetic mistakes in DNA, the material of heredity...
Posted on May 4, 2006 01:49 PM • 6 Comments
We talk about molecular population and evolutionary GENETICS and GENOMICS. You know, the caliper measurement of a gene's evolvability in moles.
