JP at my other blog has two posts on molecular evolution worth checking out (the second post was inspired by a comment from RPM).
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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…
What with all the traveling, I am behind with all the PLoS-related news. So, let me put it all together in one post here.
In the Media
There is a very nice article in New York Times about the launch of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and a nice article about Open Access in The Journal Times (hat-…
Welcome to the introductory edition of Animalcules!
Our first, and most pressing, issue is the name. As was pointed out in the comments here, there's already a monthly column in Microbe (formerly ASM News) called "Animalcules." But I still like the name, so I was thinking of incorporating…
Recently a few blogs I follow have been having a back and forth "debate" which seem to recapitulate in the most general sense the "selectionist vs. neutralist" debates of the 1970s.
Three posts from p-ter:
Do phenotypes evolve neutrally?
More on adaptation
Final Thoughts on adaptation
From Larry:…