Modern biology was initially established by Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859 and fully implemented by the Neo-Darwinian synthesis of natural selection with genetics that solidified in the middle ...
Read ItAnyone who's spent any length of time in the tropics comes to develop an intimate relationship with Aedes aegypti, the domestic mosquito. Although everyone at some point has felt the red-raised itc...
Read ItIn December 2013, Stergachis and colleagues published a high-profile paper on the dual role Transcription Factors (TFs) might have as a consequence of their binding to protein coding regions. This ...
Read ItThe following paper was published as recently as yesterday, but already caused a bit of a stir on social media. Let's see why. A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistanceLosee L....
Read ItTeaching anthropology and human evolution involves tearing down stubborn misconceptions and stimulating students to discover and to behold their culturally-limited assumptions objectively. That's i...
Read ItCorrespondence re: Hung, C. M., et al. 2014. "Drastic population fluctuations explain the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A no. 111 (29):10636-41. doi: 10.1073/pna...
Read ItReading something new Every once in a while, it is healthy for established concepts and standard procedures to be challenged by ideas that come from outside the discipline's specialist field. They ...
Read ItPhylogenomics is a field in which genome analysis and evolutionary reconstructions are integrated. This integration is important because genome data is of great value in evolutionary reconstruct...
Read ItThe paper describes the version 4 of the DnaSP (DNA Sequence Polymorphism) software, a bioinformatics tool used to analyze and interpret DNA sequence polymorphism data (Rozas et al. 2003)...
Read ItAbstract Hypothesis: The light/dark oscillation produced by the sun and rotating earth and the change in the period of that oscillation have played a more pivotal role in the evolution of life...
Read ItOn the role of the circadian system in the earliest evolution of life: The diel hypothesis Glen D. Brown Unaffiliated Every living organism has a circadian clock. The...
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