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                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
5.3. How history is distorted.

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This is the ninth in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Click on the...
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Monday, July 22, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
5.2. The Modern Synthesis of 1959

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This is the eighth in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionary...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation. 5.1. Thinking about theories

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This is the seventh in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionar...
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Saturday, July 13, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
5. Beyond the "Synthesis" debate

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This is the sixth in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionary...
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Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation. 4. What makes this new?

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This is the fifth in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionary...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation. 3. The causes and consequences of biases in the introduction process

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This is the fourth in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionary...
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Friday, June 28, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation. 2. Some objections addressed.

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This is the third in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionary...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation. 1. The empirical case

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This is the second in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. The first p...
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Thursday, June 13, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation: Introduction

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This is the first of a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionar...
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Thursday, June 06, 2019

My father on D-Day: 75 years ago

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Today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. 1 For us baby bo...
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Monday, April 01, 2019

The frequency of splicing errors reflects the balance between selection and drift

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Splice variants are very common in eukaryotes. We know that it's possible to detect dozens of different splice variants for each gene wi...
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Friday, March 29, 2019

Are multiple transcription start sites functional or mistakes?

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If you look in the various databases you'll see that most human genes have multiple transcription start sites. The evidence for the exis...
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Monday, February 04, 2019

What is the dominant view of junk DNA?

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I think that about 90% of our genome is junk and I know lots of other scientists who feel the same way. I'm pretty sure that this view i...
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Sunday, January 27, 2019

Yeast loses its introns

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Baker’s yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ) is one of the best studied eukaryotes. Its genome is just slightly larger than the largest bacter...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

What happens when twins get their DNA tested?

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The Canadian Broadcastng Company (CBC) has a TV show called Marketplace that promotes itself as an advocate of consumers' rights. It ha...
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