Not much on evolution and genetics of late...well, sometimes life goes in other directions. But, I though I'd point you to JP over at my other blog commenting on a paper where the author dismisses the rate of human genomic evolution next to his vaunted Drosophila (the full paper can be found in the links over there). RPM responds over at his blog. The comment boards on my other blog have been hoppin', with RPM being the Drosophile, and JP making the case that H. sapiens is the next big model organism. Scroll down and you'll see the Allen Iverson.'
I just got Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts & Case Studies in the mail, so except some evo-gen fun in the next few weeks....
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Over the past month or so I've been blogging chapter 5 of Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts & Case Studies. This chapter covers "stochastics processes," basically the random elements in the flux of gene frequencies in biological populations. Now, I'm a selection man for real, but to understand…
Chad at Uncertain Principles, one of my ScienceBlogs siblings, is requesting his co-bloggers suggest the most important experiment or discovery in their field. There are a disproportionate amount of "bio-bloggers" -- though we each have our own niche -- and he's asking us to nominate "the most…
Jason Rosenhouse has dug into the details of the evo-devo chapter of Behe's The Edge of Evolution and found some clear examples of dishonest quote-mining (so what else is new, you may be thinking—it's what creationists do). I've warned you all before that when you see an ellipsis in a creationist…
Jonathan Wells recently gave a talk in Albuquerque at something called the "Forum on Science, Origins, and Design", a conference about which I can find absolutely nothing on the web. I wasn't there, of course, and I don't get invited to these goofy events anyway, but I did get a copy of Wells'…
Drosophila is bad comparison to human evolution. Cockroaches have not changed much since dinosur age. Yet, we human evolved faster than those insects. Bad comparison.