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Bigger on the inside
The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission for purchases made on Bookshop.org via links from this post. Evolutionary biology is, fundamentally, the study of how populations of living things change over time. Different creatures live different lives, and at any given point in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Wagner, genotype networks
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How A Troublesome Inheritance gets human genetics wrong
Probably since before the origin of modern Homo sapiens, we have known that people from other places—the next village over, the other side of the mountains, or some distant and unexplored land—were different from us. Some of those differences were … Continue reading
Sequencer to the stars
The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission for purchases made on Bookshop.org via links from this post. No single person is responsible for the revolution in genetic data collection that has reshaped biology over just a handful of decades, but if you had … Continue reading
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Relentless Evolution: The vital relevance of the visible
The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission for purchases made on Bookshop.org via links from this post. One of Stephen Jay Gould’s sharpest conceptual coinages was a barb leveled, from his paleontological perspective, at the body of research focused on bouts of adaptive … Continue reading