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Saturday, June 13, 2020

What's in Your Genome? Chapter 2: The Evolution of Sloppy Genomes

I had to completely reorganize chapter 2 in order to move population genetics closer to the beginning of the book and reduce the number of words.

Chapter 2: The Evolution of Sloppy Genomes
  • Fugu sashimi
  • Variation in genome size
  • The Onion Test
  • Instantaneous genome doubling
  • Modern evolutionary theory
  • Random genetic drift
  • Neutral Theory
  • Nearly-Neutral Theory
  • Box 2-1: Are humans are still evolving?
  • Population size and the Drift-Barrier Hypothesis
  • Bacteria have small genomes
  • On the evolution of sloppy genomes



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