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• The Great Porcupine Hunt

  

  A few weeks ago, we witnessed an amazing scene on one of our camera stations. At 4:14 am on August 26, one of our young male leopards BB was caught hunting a... Read more

  The 20 September 2012 by   Iratemonkey
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• Genotype-phenotype Maps and Mathy Biology

  

  I'm reading a book chapter by Peter Stadler from 2002 called Landscapes and Effective Fitness [1]. It has this absolutely gorgeous figure: I love it. But just... Read more

  The 28 September 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• Titles in Evolutionary Biology

  

  These are the new papers for the last couple of weeks that I would like to read but will probably never get to. Gone are the days of the polymaths already, and... Read more

  The 10 September 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• ENCODE: What Defines Genomic Function?

  

  A new wealth of articles by the ENCODE (the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) consortium suggest that far more of the human genome carries out some function or... Read more

  The 05 September 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?

  

  image credit You don't need to look any further than last week's news cycle to see proof that a girl can throw a ball: Erin DiMeglio, the first female... Read more

  The 22 September 2012 by   Gerard
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• Moon-Shine

  

  The Reverend Sun Myung Moon has died of pneumonia, a natural cause, at the age of 92. This may be a bit shocking for church members, who might have gotten the... Read more

  The 04 September 2012 by   Cris
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• Sperm Swimming Pattern Captured for the First Time

  

  A new three-dimensional, lens-free imaging technique has provided the first evidence of spiraling movements that had previously only been inferred from... Read more

  The 18 September 2012 by   Ningauble
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• Epistasis in Evolution

  

  [The following is a post written for BEACON.] What is epistasis? Epistasis is a measure of the strength of epistatic interactions. Epistatic interactions are... Read more

  The 17 September 2012 by   Bjornostman
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