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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Exam Question #1
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It's that time of year again. My students have a mid-tern test on Feb. 28th so I giving out a list of questions that will be on the exam...
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The Cost of Introns
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Michael Lynch estimates that the cost of adding an intron to an intronless gene is equivalent to adding about 31 bp of essential target (Lyn...
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Monday's Molecule #159
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This is a very important molecule for many reasons. Versions of it are found in all living species. Its function is essential in most (al...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Is "Out-of-Africa" Dead or Just Severely Wounded?
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Here's a good summary from the New York Times [ DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All ]. The story is written by Alanna Mitchell. J...
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Is Neanderthal Your Distant Cousin or Your Ancestor?
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The answer to the question is "mostly cousin" or "both," depending on whether you are African, Asian, or European. Lot...
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Happy Birthday Charles Darwin
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[Reposted from 2008.] Charles Robert Darwin was born on this day in 1809. Darwin was the greatest scientist who ever lived. In honor o...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
If I was in L.A. ...
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It's windy, snowy, and -14°C. Ms. Sandwalk gets it exactly right on her blog [ If I was in L.A. ]. We'll soon be in Los Angeles...
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Friday, February 10, 2012
How to Turn a University Into a Glorified High School
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Ian D. Clark is Professor of Public Policy and Governance here at the University of Toronto. He has attracted a lot of attention lately b...
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How Did the Zebra Get Its Stripes?
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We've been discussing the adaptationist approach to biology on another thread and this is a good example to illustrate the issues. If I ...
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Remember Chris Mooney?
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Chris Mooney has achieved some remarkable goals in the past ten years or so. He's an atheist accommodationist who doesn't understa...
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Was Newton the Greatest Scientist Who Ever Lived?
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Most of us know that Charles Darwin was the greatest scientist who ever lived but one still finds the occasional misguided physicist/mathema...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
The Mysterious Epigenome
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Tom Woodward is the founder of the C.S. Lewis Society and the apologetics.org website. He has written a books (with James Gills) called ...
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Michael Lynch on Evo-Devo
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Michael Lynch had some cogent (and provocative, and true) words on adaptationism in his book The Origins of Genome Architectue [ Michael Ly...
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Michael Lynch on Adaptationism
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I've been studying Michael Lynch's book The origins of Genome Architecture . It's a marvelous book, I wish everyone interested i...
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Must a Gene Have a Function?
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Biology is such a messy subject. 1 It's impossible to come up with simple definitions of fundamental concepts in biology because there ...
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