Bjornostman

LATEST ARTICLES ( 111 )

• American Teens Are Losing Their Religion

  

  Just this figure. Fig 2. Percentage of American adolescents endorsing “none” for religious affiliation, 1966–2014. From Twenge et al. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Monty Hall Evolver

  

  The Monty Hall problem is very famous (Wikipedia, NYT). It is so famous because it so easily fools almost everyone the first time they hear about it, including... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Answer in Genesis Affirms Evolution, Sort of

  

  Answer is Genesis (i.e., Ken Ham and the Creation Museum) has published a really nice description of the bedbug paper that came out earlier this year. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• CoE #78 is up

  A very short edition of Carnival of Evolution is up today. A new blogger is hiding behind a pseudonym, David Hume, with two excellent posts on molecular... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How to Evolve Intelligence in 7 Easy Steps

  

  The September issue of Scientific American is about human evolution. It includes articles by Frans de Waal, Gary Stix, John Hawks, and others. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• CoE #77 on Carnival of Evolution

  

  Carnival of Evolution #77 - the Phoenix edition is up at Carnival of Evolution. Where it is going to stay. It is also going to be up every month on the 1st. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Ken Ham Wants to Return to Whatever We Once Were

  

  Ken Ham delivers an awesome summary of the decline of religion's influence in his Answers Magazine. It reads really well, mostly, if you forget for a moment tha... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Creationist Origin Summit at Michigan State University

  

  ORiGiN SuMMiT Michigan State University November 1st, 2014 Business College Complex, Room N130 FREE ADMISSION website Meet the Speakers Dr. Gerald Bergman... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Affects Acceptance of Evolution?

  

  There's a creationist conference coming to Michigan State University this Saturday, so I and others have been thinking and talking about how to respond. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Evolution, Sex, and Mixability

  

  Last Friday Christos Papadimitriou gave a seminar at UC Santa Barbara in the Computer Science department. The title of his talk was Computational Insights and... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Do All Species Form the Same Way as Songbirds?

  

  As niches are filled up by new species speciation slows down. Comes to a halt, even. This makes sense, as the niches are ways of life that organisms can have, i... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Morphological Interpretation of Traits

  Have a look at this short video. Do you think it works? It is supposed to show that new species form when traits are subject to trade-offs. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Death of the Fittest

  

  This is imho an excessively beautiful figure! I keep staring at it getting thrills, and bliss pours over me as I explore its intricacies. This is evolution.... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 73rd Carnival of Evolution: World Cup Edition

  

  Welcome to the 2014 Carnival of Evolution World Cup of evolution blog posts. We have an exciting post ahead of us today where we will find the winner of the... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Vertebrate Sexual Systems

  

  Awesome figure of the sexual systems used by 2,145 vertebrates species (705 fish, 173 amphibian, 593 non-avian reptilian, 195 avian, 479 mammalian). Similar... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Video: Visualizing Coevolution in Dynamic Fitness Landscapes

  The fitness landscape is the framework for thinking about evolutionary processes the same way the phylogenetic tree is how we think about evolutionary history. Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mike Riddle: Does Evolution Have a . . . Chance?

  

  It's all very well to have a degree in mathematics and try and calculate the probability for proteins forming, but if you don't know - or choose to ignore -... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Simulations Behind the Fitness Landscape Visualizations

  

  We now have two videos out featuring evolving populations in two-dimensional fitness landscapes. Using fitness landscapes to visualize evolution in action... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Not Dead Yet: When Do We Give up on an Idea?

  

  Guest post by Carina Baskett written in response to Angela Moles and Jeff Ollerton's post on Dynamic Ecology: Is the notion that species interactions are... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Nature Communications Faux Pas

  

  This article in Nature Communications has this figure showing the phylogenetic relationship between "contemporary human populations and Neanderthals": Basically... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE