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Category Archives: evolution
Happy Birthday Origin of Species with a homage to Morse Peckham
152 years ago on the day 1250 copies of the first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (OOS) went on sale in the United Kingdom. By the end of the day all copies were sold out. All … Continue reading
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From the lowliest of worms
For the Darwin Song Project Mark Erelli composed and performed a piece entitled Kingdom Come. The song is haunting and if you pay close attention to the lyrics you may realize (or not) that it is as if Darwin himself … Continue reading
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Evolution according to kids
This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog (http://pineda-krch.com) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of Alberta.
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Sally Otto awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
Great news in the ether today. Evolutionary geneticist Sally Otto has been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. Awards get handed out all the time to deserving scientists but this one hits home base. Sally is a friend and a colleague and, to me, it is … Continue reading
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How important science done by important scientists at important universities can go wrong
No need to point any more fingers as many have done so already, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and 140ish, give or take a few, authors here. Instead I present to you a summary of how … Continue reading
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Carnival of evolution #31 has appeared
The 31th installment of the Carnival of Evolution has appeared over at The Dispersal of Darwin. A mother-load of goodies, as usually (due to excessive holiday indulgences I alas forgot to submit write my contribution). It’s not a surprise that the story of the month – aka arsenic-based-life – features prominently. … Continue reading
Carnival of evolution #30 has appeared
The 30th installment of the Carnival of Evolution has appeared over at Bob O’Hara’s This Scientific Life with as pile of cool posts to peruse – yay! The next edition will be hosted at The Dispersal of Darwin on January 1st. This is from the “Mario’s … Continue reading
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Help promote the teaching of evolution this holiday season
For this holiday season’s good cause donation you have the great opportunity to become directly involved in promoting the teaching of evolution in schools. Rap troubadour Baba Brinkman is taking his “The Rap Guide to Evolution” to the next level … Continue reading
George C. Williams (1926-2010)
Seminal evolutionary biologist George Williams died on Wednesday at the age of 84. His Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966) is one of the books, along side Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, that influenced my thinking in evolutionary biology the … Continue reading
Google Squared evolutionary biologists
Google Squared is a semantic search tool from Google extracting structured data from across the web and presenting its results in spreadsheet-like format. Each search query return a table of search results which has its own set of columns – … Continue reading
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Dad, I’d like to have a t-shirt about evolution
The following conversation transpired today; [5yr old]: Dad, I’d like to have a t-shirt about evolution. [Me]: Evolution? You mean evolution like in Darwin? [5yr old]: Yes, you have all those Darwin shirts – I’d like to have one too. … Continue reading
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Happy 201st birthday Charles!
Today marks the 201st anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the father of the evolutionary theory as we know it. It is time February 12 became known as Darwin Day. A celebration of Darwin’s life and contribution to humanity. On … Continue reading
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Happy birthday The Origin of Species
Can you wish a book a happy birthday – sure you can! Happy birthday The Origin of Species, and many more to come. You were the one that enlightened us and showed us where we come from. You showed us … Continue reading
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Happy birthday Charles!
Happy birthday Charles! In the eyes of my four year old you invented the Tree of Life, you drive an Evolvo, and have a really really big beard. The real question is, however, what would you put in the loot … Continue reading
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Happy birthday Theodosius
In the year of evolution and its Darwin-mania let’s not forget Theodosius Dobzhansky, who made the first significant synthesis of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution with Gregor Mendel’s theory of genetics in his book Genetics and the Origin of Species … Continue reading
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Darwin Day celebrations at the University of Alberta
At last the plans for the Darwin Day celebrations at the University of Alberta (my current location) has been unveiled. The Department of Biology is organizing a seminar series on February 12 to honor Darwin and his contribution to biology … Continue reading
Alarming cuts in evolutionary biology at Leiden University
This alarming development was circulated today by the President of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Isabelle Olivieri: I would like you bring to your attention the following situation. Because of reorganization in some Dutch Universities and money cutting in … Continue reading
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Wanted: a few good Steves
The call is out in the blogosphere and on mailing lists for a few more good scientists named Steve, Stephen, Stephanie, Stephen, Etienne, or Esteban, et al. to join Project Steve, a tongue-in-cheek response to creationists. From the web page … Continue reading
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Makeup sex advice for sex-refugees
Due to the massive flooding in Iowa the meeting on Sex and Recombination was canceled. So for all of you sex-refugees out there here’s a bit of makeup sex advice from Dr. Tatiana herself. Apparently she gave a public lecture … Continue reading
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Evolution 2008 blogroll
The Evolution 2008 meeting is in progress as I write (and I am cursing the noodly appendages of the FSM that I cannot be there). The next best thing to actually being there, of course, is to blogroll the meeting…, … Continue reading
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What kind of cheese is the Moon made of?
Perhaps unsurprising, the Lenski-Conservapedia affair continues. If you are not familiar with this saga The Pandas Thumb provides a rather extensive summary, or to keep it short (also from The Pandas Thumb): … basically, Andy Schlafly has been demanding every … Continue reading
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CSEE 2008 – here I come!
I am on my way to the 2008 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). This year it is held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, my previous home base. It will be nice … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, CSEE, ecology, evolution, meeting, Michael Doebeli, Sally Otto, UBC
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Proudly morality underminded
According to a New Scientist article on myths and misconceptions about evolution (see Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions) accepting evolution undermines morality. “Darwinism claims that living beings have evolved as a result of coincidences and by means of a struggle … Continue reading
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What’s up for Darwin Day at UC Davis?
Darwin Day is around the corner – specifically on February 12. Darwin Day is a celebration of our great leader’s birthday (Feb 12, 1809). Many academic institutions around the world celebrate Darwin on this day with various events (see for … Continue reading
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Chuckie ‘D’ quote of the day
Chuckie ‘D’ says: “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”
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