Thursday, April 28, 2016

Fun and games with Otangelo Grasso about photosynthesis

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Otangelo Grasso just posted another one of his screeds. This time it's on photosynthesis . All of his "essays' conform to the s...
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Monday, April 25, 2016

Theme: Genealogy

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Monday, April 11, 2016 My DNA ancestry I sent a DNA sample off to ancestry.com a few weeks ago and here are the results. Monday, Novem...
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I Think We Have the Same Eyes

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Ancestry.com (ancestry.ca) has this neat feature where they combine all their family trees into a big "One World" tree. If you kno...
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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Proponents of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) explain their logic using the Central Dogma as an example

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There's a group of biologists who think that the current version of evolutionary theory is insufficient. They want to create an extended...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Don't call it "The Theory of Evolution"

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By now, we all know that a "theory" in science is much more than idle speculation, a point that has been made repeatedly over the ...
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Templeton gives $8 million to prove that there's more to evolution than natural selection

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The Templeton Foundation will fund a group of researchers who promote something called "The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis" (EES)...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

My DNA ancestry

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I sent a DNA sample off to ancestry.com a few weeks ago and here are the results. Ancestry has a peculiar way of identifying haplotypes. ...
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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Georgi Marinov reviews two books on junk DNA

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The December issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach has a review of two books on junk DNA. The reviewer is Georgi Marinov, a name that&...
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When philosophers write about evolution

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The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach contains a review of two books about evolution written by philosophers. The author of...
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Friday, March 25, 2016

Teaching about genomes using Nessa Carey's book: Junk DNA

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Nessa Carey's book about junk DNA is an embarrassment to the scientific community [ Nessa Carey doesn't understand junk DNA ] [ The ...
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