The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is partnering with Carnegie Museum of Natural History in a first-of-its-kind program that will educate medical students on the evolutionary history of humans and animals. By learning the origins of human disease, such...
Posted on February 28, 2006 08:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have just been notified that the Spring edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review will feature articles on evolution and ID by Niles Eldredge, Michael Ruse, Thomas Eisner, Robert M. Sapolsky and David Quammen. To celebrate Darwin Day, the Review...
Posted on February 12, 2006 03:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I was going to post the text of a talk ("The Myths of Darwinism") that I gave to the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix in February 2002. But I can't find a scanned copy. I should be able to...
Posted on February 12, 2006 10:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at Evolgen, RPM has posted the seventh installment of his series on detecting natural selection, a piece on nucleotide polymorphism and selection. As always, it is worth checking out. For those that missed the earlier pieces, here is RPM's...
Posted on January 15, 2006 02:58 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last night's talk on the Cambrian explosion went really well - managed to nicely weave a narrative of fossils, genetic analysis, and evo-devo over the two hours (questions were spread throughout the talk). Over at Pharyngula, PZ has linked to...
Posted on January 14, 2006 06:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While finishing up graduate school, I worked for the Irish government on on a project to study fish stocks in the Irish Sea - this involved modelling biological and economic aspects with a view to the long term survival of...
Posted on January 11, 2006 03:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So what do you see? A groove and some lines? Truth be told, this is possibly the oldest recorded chordate fossil (or, should I say, one of a number of seventeen specimens of same). It dates from the pre-Cambrian -...
Posted on January 10, 2006 10:02 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
