Darwin the Newtonian. Part III. In what sense does genetic drift 'exist'?

I t has been about 50 years since Motoo Kimora and King and Jukes proposed that a substantial fraction of genetic variation can be selective...

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What population genetic diversity can and can't tell us

By Anne Buchanan and Ken Weiss G enetic diversity is indisputably a marker of geographic origin and human migration.  The reason is very sim...

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Why less malaria can be more of a problem

Most people who are interested in malaria are concerned with regions with really high transmission.  These are areas, such as sub-Saharan Af...

Daniel M. Parkerdrug resistanceevolutionmalariapopulation genetics

Genetic leaf-litter

There are many ways in which everyone is a conceptual prisoner, encaged in culturally based limits. We are born to, and trained in and entr...

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