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• Carnival of Evolution Statistics

  

  David Morrison just hosted Carnival f Evolution #52, and now he has written a post with lots of statistics of CoE: The network history of the Carnival of... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Titles in Evolution - and in Creation?

  

  Here w go again with the new articles on evolution. This is just a very small sample that I chose out of interest from the last couple of weeks - and just from ... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Ochman on Bacterial Evolution

  

  Yesterday I went to the annual Thomas S Whittam Memorial Lecture here at MSU. Howard Ochman talked about "Evolutionary Forces Affecting Bacterial Genomes",... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 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

  Posted on 28 September 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How to Be a Good Speaker

  

  Bjørn's two rules of being a good speaker: Love the words that you speak Always have something to say An engaged speaker is more enjoyable to listen to than... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 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

  Posted on 17 September 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 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