Bjornostman

LATEST ARTICLES ( 117 )

• 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

• Ignored

  There is a website I am ignoring. Sometimes the best action to take is to ignore. The organization and the man leading it want to influence society in a major... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 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