Lewontin Reviews Gould
Everyone’s blogging about Stephen J. Gould’s Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Razib, John Lynch, Laelaps). I’m not. The book’s too long, and I’m too busy. But that doesn’t mean I can’t link to them,...
View ArticleJudson on Junk and Genome Size
Olivia Judson (aka, Dr. Tatiana) has a blog at the NYTimes website. It’s usually a good read, but she has been known to go off the deep end. In this week’s entry, Judson posts on how bones are not the...
View ArticleEvidence that Men Think With Their Junk
Us dudes are always accused of thinking with our dicks. Perhaps it’s because the genes expressed in our brains are similar to those expressed in our ‘nads: Among the 17 tissues, the highest similarity...
View ArticlePress Releases are Written by Stupid People
PLoS Biology’s press releases have taken another step toward being dismissed as “crap” by people who know jack shit about evolution, thanks to a new press release published last week. It starts off...
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The Natural Selection of Ideas
It’s funny because some people think both groups are wrong: Originally from Tom the Dancing Bug.
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Whad’ya Know About Protists?
My advisor has recently got me listening to Whad’ya Know. My first reaction: It’s like Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Only not as funny, not as interesting, and not as good. I’ve been downloading the...
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A Neutral Theory of Memetics
In his classic book from 1976, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins introduced the concept of the meme. Basically, a meme can be thought of as a cultural gene — an idea that is transmitted in a...
View ArticleDarwinism is Dead
Olivia Judson says Darwinism is dead. She’s right. Anyone who talks about “Darwinism” or “evolutionists” gets my attention. That’s not to say that any use of those terms is incorrect. But they are...
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The Evolution & Medicine Review
All good medicine is evidence based — that is, diagnoses and treatments are developed via the scientific method. Oftentimes, evolutionary biology is employed to understand human health and diseases....
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Sex & SMBE in 2009
The University of Iowa is hosting next year’s meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, SMBE 2009. I usually go to the annual SMBE conference, and I was probably going to attend SMBE...
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