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January 27, 2007

What science fiction writer am I?  permlink

Category: Blog

Pretty cool. Via Afarensis. I am:Arthur C. ClarkeWell known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary. Which science fiction writer are you?...

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January 26, 2007

Anisogamy  permlink

Category: Evolution

Matt has a "Basic Concepts" post on Anisogamy....

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Kat  permlink

Category: Blog

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January 24, 2007

Basic concepts - linkage disequilibrium  permlink

Category: Genetics

Thinking about it today, I realized there is a "Basic Concept" that I think I should touch upon, and that is linkage disequilibrium (LD). Notice the wiki link? I do that whenever I mention LD because it is such an...

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Species  permlink

Category: Blog

John Wilkins has a long post on species concepts....

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January 23, 2007

Basic concepts - 8th grade math  permlink

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Many fellow ScienceBloggers are doing a "Basic Concepts" series. Here are some of them: Mean, Median, and Mode Normal Distribution Force Gene Central Dogma of Molecular Biology Evolution Clade Instead of thinking up something new I've decided to repost a...

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January 22, 2007

W.D. Hamilton & group selection & ideology  permlink

Category: Evolution

My post below, Group selection & the naturalistic fallacy, elicited some interesting comments. First, I mentinoed W.D. Hamilton's allusion to a relationship between fascism & group selection. Here is what he said: 'Liberal' thinkers should realize from the outset that...

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10 Questions for György Buzsáki  permlink

Category: Biology

amnestic does 10 Questions for György Buzsáki....

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Genetic stochasticity & environments  permlink

Category: Genetics

So I near the end of my survey of chapter 5 of Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts & Case Studies.1 Today, we address environmental variation, but I think sometimes the end is the beginning, so I quote: Random environment models have many...

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January 21, 2007

Group selection & the naturalistic fallacy  permlink

Category: Evolution

Over at Bora's place he talks about a paper on group selection. In regards to the scientific idea and its broad relevance to evolutionary biology, I am mildly skeptical. That being said, this comment drew my attention: While endorsing DS...

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January 20, 2007

Robert Trivers wins the Crafoord Prize  permlink

Category: Genetics

A reader just informed me that Bob Trivers just won the Crafoord Prize in bioscience! For those who would like to become more familiar with Trivers' work, I highly recommend Natural Selection and Social Theory. Genes in Conflict is also...

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January 19, 2007

Katz  permlink

Category: Blog

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Sign up for A Week of Science  permlink

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There is now a sign up page for A Week of Science. Basically I'll take the feeds and load them up on Justscience.net with Feedpress the day before the 5th. You can see the current list here. You can insert...

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January 18, 2007

Steve Weinberg's brilliant ignorance  permlink

Category: Science

PZ and John have commented on a Steve Weinberg review of The God Delusion. This prompts me to offer up a cheap reflection which I've been meaning to air since watching Beyond Belief 2006, Steve Weinberg was, to my eye,...

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A week of Just Science, what it's about  permlink

Category: Blog

RPM and Chris have hit most of the points in regards to the Just Science project. To be short, what it's not about is anti-science. Just one week, that's all. It certainly isn't about traffic or comment response. It isn't...

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January 17, 2007

Four Stone Hearth  permlink

Category: Anthroplogy

Martin has Four Stone Hearth up, go check it out!...

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