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Category: ChicagoDarwin2009
Man, philosophers sure take a long time to get to the point. OK, his outline: 1) development and differential entrenchment in evolution. 2) application of these principles to culture. 3) what new phenomena this theory can capture. Plunges into "thick,...
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Category: Science
Darwin didn't know the basic mechanisms of evolutionary change. Mechanism of inheritance was a black box. Darwin's last publication before his death was "on the dispersal of bivalves". Why are freshwater bivalves so homogeneous in morphology? Describes a beetle with...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:14 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
How can I resist an opportunity to see Ruse gibbering on the stage? I'm curious to see whether he annoys or enlightens. It could go either way. He's not going to talk about evo-devo! OK, I'm already annoyed. Criticizes the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:00 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
Shubin had a tough act to follow, coming after Kingsley's great talk. I'm sure it will be good, though — last night I got a tour of his lab, saw the original Tiktaalik specimens and some new ones, and some...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:18 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Jerry Coyne has put up a few photos from the conference, including one of me hunched over my teeny-tiny note-taking laptop doing the exciting live-blogging thing. It doesn't look as glamorous as it actually is....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:02 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
This talk should put me back in my comfort zone—developmental biology, evolution, and fish, with the stickleback story, one of the really cool model systems that have emerged to study those subjects. What is the molecular basis of evolutionary change...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:56 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
Darwin had problems with the fossil record that he explained as a result of imperfections. Modern paleo has corrected some of that with the discovery of many intermediates. Jablonski is going to talk about the fossil record as a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:52 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
A phylogeny is a statement about the evolutionary history of organisms. Cladograms give branching order only, but phylograms include branch lengths as well. They inform us about diversification of lineages, patterns and rates of trait evolution, and the ages of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:01 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
Lander began by saying he wasn't an evolutionist — an interestingly narrow definition of the term. He's a fan of the research, but considers himself a biomedical geneticist, as if that was something different. Having entire genomes of many species...
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Category: Science
Earlier today, Jerry mentioned to me that he noticed my earlier blog posts on the meeting, and thought I wasn't being critical enough. So I think that means I'm supposed to let my inner beast out for this one. (Nah,...
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