Bjornostman

LATEST ARTICLES ( 111 )

• What Would Surprise You?

  

  What would be a really big moment that I could say advanced my understanding of how living things evolve? Most papers I read anymore are incremental advances.... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 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

  Posted on 10 September 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 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

  Posted on 05 September 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Darwin's Restaurant (CoE #51)

  

  The 51st edition of Carnival of Evolution is up at The Stochastic Scientist: Darwin's Restaurant. There's something on the menu for everyone. Next edition will... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Got Questions About Evolution?

  

  There must be lots of people out there on the interwebz with questions about evolution. People are evidently very interested, whether they are creationists,... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Titles in Evolution

  

  Here's pickings from the last month of new papers in evolution. Those are just the ones that popped out at me in the tocs, but there are of course many, many... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 50th Carnival of Evolution with References

  

  For the love of references! If the submitted posts didn't all have references for support, they do now, because host of the 50th CoE edition, Marc Srour, has... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2012 SCIENCE

• Crossing Valleys in Fitness Landscapes

  

  With his "holey adaptive landscapes", Sergey Gavrilets (e.g. 1997) solved the problem of crossing valleys of low fitness in the fitness landscape* by positing... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 SCIENCE

• ALife 13 at Michigan State

  

  The 13th conference on Artificial Life is going on right now at Michigan State University. Follow tweets at #alife13, and see program here. Being hosted by... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 SCIENCE

• 12 Reasons Why There is Something

  

  Why is there something rather than nothing? Pick your favorite reason among Michael Shermer's picks in Nothing is Negligible: Why There is Something Rather... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 SCIENCE

• Defining Life Foolishly

  

  Some like to define living organisms as that which 1) reproduces, 2) has inheritance, and 3) has variation. In other words, living things would be those which... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2012 SCIENCE

• Blogger Poutine

  

  Here we are a group of bloggers in Quebec just across the border from Ottawa having poutine. Jerry Coyne, Rosie Redfield (blue hair), T. Ryan Gregory, Steve... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2012 SCIENCE

• Tweets from Evolution 2012 in Ottawa

  

  Lots of people are tweeting from the Evolution 2012 conference in Ottawa. It's the biggest evolution conference ever - first joint North American and European. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2012 SCIENCE

• Carnival of Evolution #49 at Mousetrap

  

  CoE #49 is up at the Mousetrap. This is Joachim Dagg's blog, and he really likes mousetraps. I suppose this may be inspired by Michael Behe, but I cannot be... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SCIENCE

• On Independence

  [Repost from July 4th, 2009.]On this 4th of July allow me to quote that famous sentence from the Declaration of Independence:"We hold these truths to be... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SCIENCE

• What Happens to Bacterial Communities Under Selection?

  

  When one gene comes under a new selection pressure, a population can respond by increasing the frequency of the better alleles. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2012 SCIENCE

• Titles

  

  Some times very technical papers are published that would be very good for me to read. Papers that on title don't look very sexy (to me). Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2012 SCIENCE

• CoE Poster for Ottawa

  

  BEACON has a booth at Evolution 2012 in Ottawa, and they have invited me to put up a poster about Carnival of Evolution. Here's a draft. Let me know what you... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2012 SCIENCE

• China is a Dictatorship

  

  The fact that Hu Jintao refuses to talk to the Danish press as he visits Denmark next week. Apparently he never has in China either, in the almost ten years tha... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2012 SCIENCE

• Titles

  

  This is only a fraction of the new papers on research in evolutionary biology from the last week or so. How many creationist papers have been published in the... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2012 SCIENCE