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I'm discussing a paper by Lu and Bourrat (2017) [ Debating philosophers: The Lu and Bourrat paper ]. They begin by describing current ev...

John Wilkins posted a link on Facebook to a recent paper by his colleagues in Australia. The authors are Qiaoying Lu of the Department of Ph...

The Selfish Gene was published forty-one years ago (1976) and last year there was a bit of a celebration. I think we can all appreciate the ...

I submitted my grades on Thursday morning and they were approved by the Department of Biochemistry in short order. Once the final grades hav...

I leave tomorrow for Chicago where I'm attending Experimental Biology 2017 . Is anyone else going to be there? Wanna get together? I'...

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How can alleles be fixed in a population by positive natural selection (i.e. adaptation) if the environment remains constant for thousands o...

Many people believe that recombination evolved because it increases genetic variation in a population and this provided a selective advantag...

More than 90% of our genome is transcribed when you add up all the transcripts from various cell types and various times of development (= p...

The Three Domain Hypothesis has eukaryotes and archaea branching off from eubacteria. It shows eukaryotes more closely related to archaea th...

The paper by Andrews et al. (2011) lists a number of common misconceptions held by their students. One of them is the idea that, “Evolution ...

Eugene Koonin described his view of the proper null hypothesis for evolutionary questions. One of the examples he used concerns the evolutio...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Vimy Ridge . The battle invovled four divisions of the Canadian Corps an...

A few years ago, Tomasetti and Vogelstein (2015) published a paper where they noted a correlation between rates of cancer and the number of ...

Do you think this video is helpful? [see " What Is Evolution? "] Is it important to know that evolution requires genetic changes a...