Evolutionary Biology:
Published by Yale University Press A Portrait of the Brain by Adam Zeman is a new book describing how the brain works (and does not work) in something of an Oliver Sack's experiential manner, but with a twist. Zeman is a Professor of Cognitive...
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Posted on August 15, 2008 6:51 PM • 1 Comments •
Stephen Jay Gould and David Pilbeam wrote a paper in 1974 that was shown ten years later to be so totally wrong in its conclusions that it has fallen into an obscurity not usually linked to either Gould or Pilbeam. However, they were actually right...
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Posted on August 14, 2008 1:45 PM • 2 Comments •
From Sex, Genes and Evolution, a story of publishing in PLoS Open Access Journal: My lab has taken its initial journey on the PLoS ONE train. Yesterday, our paper entitled "An Expanded Inventory of Conserved Meiotic Genes Provides Evidence for Sex in Trichomonas vaginalis" was...
Posted on August 13, 2008 5:04 PM • 3 Comments •
Did Past Climate Changes Promote Speciation in the Amazon? Any time you've got a whopping big river like the Amazon (or a mountain chain like the Andes, or an ocean, or whatever), you've gotta figure that it will be a biogeographical barrier. Depending on the...
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Posted on July 29, 2008 6:00 PM • 0 Comments •
A recent article in PLoS examines the possibility that disease is spreading from domestic to wild bees. Osmia ribifloris...
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Posted on July 28, 2008 6:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Frog The Major Histocampatibility Complex (MHC) is an adaptive feature of the immune system that probably evolved in basal tetrapods. The MHC is genetically diverse in most populations, so the pattern of genetic variation of the MHC is probably behind the pattern of morbidity...
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Posted on July 27, 2008 6:00 PM • 1 Comments •
PZ Myers' appearance on Atheist Talk Radio was positively Orwellian. Host Mike the Madman Haubrich actually asked PZ about developmental biology (evodevo). Fish embryos? What about crackers!!!! I wanted crackers!!!! And I get Zebrafish! The interview was actually very interesting, in which PZ discussed homologous...
Posted on July 27, 2008 10:25 AM • 9 Comments •
Minnesota Atheists' "Atheists Talk" radio show Sunday, July 27, 2008, 9-10 a.m. Central Time P.Z. Myers discusses "Evo-Devo: What do a mouse's leg and a bat's wing have in common?" Also, atheist blogger C.L. Hanson discusses her book "Ex-Mormon." "Atheists Talk" airs live on AM...
Posted on July 26, 2008 12:03 PM • 2 Comments •
Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures are living on a geologic timescale. This is from a...
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Posted on July 24, 2008 5:11 PM • 4 Comments •
The phrase "genomic imprinting" has come to refer the turning off of a gene (a particular instance of a gene on a particular chromosome duplicated across the cells in a body) so that the gene is not expressed at all, with the turning off of...
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Posted on July 23, 2008 3:30 PM • 1 Comments •
