Sandwalk

Today Google celebrates the birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942). She is the author of Anne of Green Gable...

I recently had occasion to re-read a paper by Motoo Kimura from 1968. (Kimura, 1968). I noticed, for the first time, that he estimates a mut...

Last week we went to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) with our grandson Luca [see The Latest Excursion ]....

I'm creating a post where I can store quotations so I can link to them from other posts. Enjoy. The great fear of many leading creation...

I was prompted to write this post by three recent events. First, I read an article by Angelika Amon who made A case for more curiosity-drive...

An important article in the Ottawa Citizen calls for the resignation of Alain Beaudet, recently reappointed President of the Canadian Instit...

I stumbled upon this 2005 letter to Nature by Michael Lynch and I thought I'd share it with you since it emphasizes one of my main pet ...

Back in 1980, the idea that large fractions of animal and plant genomes could be junk was quite controversial. Although the idea was consist...

The human genome has about 14,000 pseudogenes that are derived from protein-coding genes and an unknown number derived from genes that speci...

A few months ago I highlighted a paper by Casane et al. (2015) where they said ... In September 2012, a batch of more than 30 articles pres...