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Tadpole Plasticity Triggered by Dragonfly Nymph Predation (video)
Professor Rick Relyea from the University of Pittsburgh gave a fascinating seminar today: "Phenotypic Plasticity: Stress-Induced Changes in Behavior, Morphology... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Pragmatic Definitions in Biology
Biology is littered with concepts that biologists cannot always agree on how to define or where there are special cases where the common definition have to be... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Origin of Life Video
I just did a reddit Science AMA today, and whenever you talk about evolution, invariably the question of the origin of life comes up. Read more
Posted on 26 March 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Evolutionary Dynamics in Holey Fitness Landscapes
What do real fitness landscapes look like? Do they look more like the image on the left, a nearly-neutral holey fitness landscape, or the one on the right, a... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Wy Do You Believe?
If you say you believe in something, what is it that you mean by that? For example, if you say you believe you will find a hundred-dollar bill today, what is... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Bill Nye Totally Won That Debate
The debate tonight between Bill Nye and Ken Ham was won by Nye hands down. Hands up. Take a look at this lovely slide: That is a fantastic point. I have not see... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Why Bill Nye Will Win This Debate
In just two days Bill Nye and Ken Ham are having a public debate in Kentucky over evolution vs. creationism. The question to be debated is “Is creation a... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Meta-spam
WTF?! A spam email advertisement for spam! Here's an unsolicited email I've just received offering bulk email solutions. I hope this is a sign that the... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2014 TECH -
Got a New Question on the Reddit AMA
post replyIamAn evolutionary biologist. AMA! from NorrisChuck via /r/IAmA/ sent 4 days ago Who is more evolved? White man or a Black man? context report mark... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Sewall Wright's Last Paper
Sewall Wright lived to be 98. Two months before he died he published a paper in The American Naturalist titled Surfaces of Selective Value Revisited (Wright,... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Two New Books on Evolution
Here are two new books on evolution. I wrote chapters for both :o Predicting Evolution and Visualizing High-Dimensional Fitness Landscapes Effects of Epistasis... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Life Was Not Created
This brochure from The Watchtower was sent to me by a reddit user, who in turn received it from a friend who believes God chose this place for us and directed... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Smooth and Rugged Fitness Landscapes
Here are a couple of maps of different landscapes just I just made today. The top landscapes are "smooth" and the bottom ones is "rugged". Read more
Posted on 13 November 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Reddit AMA FAQ
I did a Reddit/r/IAmA AMA yesterday and got a huge amount of questions. Some of them were repeats, so I post them here with answers. I'm planning to do another... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Creationist Implosion
Since the middle of last week I have been having an email conversation with a creationist. He emailed me after we had a conversation several years ago, now... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Creationists Are Infuriating - but Not as Much as We Are
I haven't blogged much lately because of other things in life. Shame. Things like work and applying for a Green Card. This has taken me out of the loop of... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
62nd Carnival of Evolution
The 62nd edition: The Whig History is up at Joachim Dagg's Ecology and Evolution Footnotes. It's a voluminous and excellent edition, but as Joachim notes,... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Carnival of Evolution the 60th Edition up at NeuroDojo
The 60th edition is now up at NeuroDojo. Go check it out, it doesn't have very many posts (what is going on with that, btw? Summer?), but Zen wrote a great... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Repo Men and Gender Roles
Scene 1: Man comes home to find that his key doesn't work anymore. He rings the bell, his wife opens the door, and tells him hers works just fine. She has had... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
My Pet Theory About the Human Nose: Breastfeeding
Why is the outer nose shaped as it is? Why don't humans just have two holes in the face, rather than this protuberance that we care so much to have the right... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE