Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, February 10, 2012
How to Turn a University Into a Glorified High School
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Ian D. Clark is Professor of Public Policy and Governance here at the University of Toronto. He has attracted a lot of attention lately b...
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How Did the Zebra Get Its Stripes?
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We've been discussing the adaptationist approach to biology on another thread and this is a good example to illustrate the issues. If I ...
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Remember Chris Mooney?
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Chris Mooney has achieved some remarkable goals in the past ten years or so. He's an atheist accommodationist who doesn't understa...
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Was Newton the Greatest Scientist Who Ever Lived?
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Most of us know that Charles Darwin was the greatest scientist who ever lived but one still finds the occasional misguided physicist/mathema...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
The Mysterious Epigenome
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Tom Woodward is the founder of the C.S. Lewis Society and the apologetics.org website. He has written a books (with James Gills) called ...
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Michael Lynch on Evo-Devo
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Michael Lynch had some cogent (and provocative, and true) words on adaptationism in his book The Origins of Genome Architectue [ Michael Ly...
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Michael Lynch on Adaptationism
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I've been studying Michael Lynch's book The origins of Genome Architecture . It's a marvelous book, I wish everyone interested i...
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Must a Gene Have a Function?
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Biology is such a messy subject. 1 It's impossible to come up with simple definitions of fundamental concepts in biology because there ...
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Monday, February 06, 2012
How Much of Our Genome Is Sequenced?
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I'm getting ready for a class on the size and composition of the human genome so I thought I'd check to see the latest estimate of i...
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Monday's Molecule #158
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This molecule is responsible for one of the distinguishing features of an entire group of species. Sadly, most undergraduates have never ...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012
An Ode to λ
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I grew up in the phage group and spent many summers at the phage meetings in Cold Spring Harbor. Back then (late 1960s, early 1970s), the...
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Friday, February 03, 2012
Carnival of Evolution #44
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This month's Carnival of Evolution (44th version) is hosted by The Atavism , a blog written by David Winter, a PhD student in evolution...
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The Arsenic Affair: No Arsenic in DNA!
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The "arsenic affair" began with a NASA press conference on Dec. 2, 2010 announcing that a new species of bacteria had been discove...
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
A Mormon Tale: The Romney Connection
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My wife and our children are cousins of Mitt Romney. This is the story of their common ancestor James Hood and his Mormon descendants. A Mor...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
A Mormon Tale: Navoo to Utah
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My wife and our children are cousins of Mitt Romney. This is the story of their common ancestor James Hood and his Mormon descendants. A Mor...
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