Evolution to and fro

Dollo's Law In the last bit of tidying up after our trip, Holly asked us to comment on a recent paper in Nature (An epistatic ratchet ...

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Selecting people

On natural selection in humans In the Rival del Garda meeting we were happy to see Luca Cavalli-Sforza for the first time in many years. Lu...

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My brain is no bigger than a caveman’s

Many people, including myself, consider Richard Dawkins to be well above average when it ...

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What problem was Darwin trying to solve....and did he actually solve it?

We properly honor Darwin on the 150th anniversary of his Origin of Species , though more proper would be to have honored both Darwin and Wal...

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Karl Marx Stares Down Herbert Spencer

We spent a couple of days in London on this trip (a post about the Genome and Public Health meeting w e attended in Bristol will come in due...

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Singing along

We heard a BBC discussion today about urban birds in Britain. An interviewee, a bird expert of some sort (we did not catch his name or prof...

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