Sandwalk

Here's my latest compilation of the composition of the human genome. It's depicted in the form of a pie chart. 1 [ UPDATED: March 2...

Some DNA sequencing technologies aren't very good at sequencing and assembling DNA that's rich in GC base pairs. What this means is ...

Kostas Kampourakis is a specialist in science education at the University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland). Most of his book is an argument a...

We were discussing the field of evolutionary psychology at our local cafe scientific meeting last week. The discussion was prompted by watch...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect was first proposed in a classic 1999 paper (Kruger and Dunning, 1999). 1 People suffering from this effect show ...

Selfish DNA is a term that became popular with the publication of a series of papers in Nature in 1980. The authors were referring to virus...

Theme Genomes & Junk DNA I'm trying to read all the recent books on the human genome and anything related. There are a lot of them...

The irony meter was a running joke on the newsgroup talk.origins back in the last century. Our irony meters were supposed to protect us fro...

You probably know that climate change is real and humans are a major cause of global warming. You probably know that life has evolved and th...

Did you know that the dirt in your local park is full of bacteria? Each scoop of soil contains millions of bacteria. And it's not just i...

Charles Darwin , the greatest scientist who ever lived, was born on this day in 1809 [ Darwin still spurs tributes, debates ] [ Happy Darwin...

Random genetic drift is the process whereby some allele frequencies change in a population by chance alone. The alleles are not being fixed ...

I'm sad because we now have almost a whole generation of young people who know very little about Stephen Jay Gould . (He died of cancer ...

A recent letter in Nature draws attention to a serious (?) problem in modern society; namely, the persecution of junior scientists by older...

This is a post about alternative splicing. I've avoided using that term in the title because it's very misleading. Alternative splic...