We’ll go easy on the actual hard science his week.
Now, we finally have a gene for Darwin’s finches' beak shape:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14181.html
Positive selection is the real deal.
With our Department turning more and more evolutionary, perhaps I should post an evolutionary paper every now and then.
http://www.biotechniques.com/news/biotechniquesNews/biotechniques-356685.html?utm_source=BioTechniques+Newsletters+%26+e-Alerts&utm_campaign=ca37b4ad04-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5f518744d7-ca37b4ad04-87700457#.VN05s3a-8_E
I would not have guessed that 0.5% of males worldwide are descendants of Genghis Khan. My guess is that all Nobel laureates’ stats combined will not be as good a few hundred years from now. Evolution at work?
Many of us have something Rand Paul can only dream about:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/02/13/rand-pauls-claim-twice-in-one-day-that-he-has-a-biology-degree/
Maybe that explains his recent vaccine BS.
I must point out that there also are some differences between being a crown prince and being a junior biomedical researcher...
http://www.nature.com/news/nih-plan-to-give-ageing-scientists-cash-draws-scepticism-1.16895
One of them is "hidden" in the numbers in the last sentence.
Then there are a few more numbers in this article:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2015_02_12/caredit.a1500039
Have a great weekend everyone.
Now, we finally have a gene for Darwin’s finches' beak shape:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14181.html
Positive selection is the real deal.
With our Department turning more and more evolutionary, perhaps I should post an evolutionary paper every now and then.
http://www.biotechniques.com/news/biotechniquesNews/biotechniques-356685.html?utm_source=BioTechniques+Newsletters+%26+e-Alerts&utm_campaign=ca37b4ad04-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5f518744d7-ca37b4ad04-87700457#.VN05s3a-8_E
I would not have guessed that 0.5% of males worldwide are descendants of Genghis Khan. My guess is that all Nobel laureates’ stats combined will not be as good a few hundred years from now. Evolution at work?
Many of us have something Rand Paul can only dream about:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/02/13/rand-pauls-claim-twice-in-one-day-that-he-has-a-biology-degree/
Maybe that explains his recent vaccine BS.
I must point out that there also are some differences between being a crown prince and being a junior biomedical researcher...
http://www.nature.com/news/nih-plan-to-give-ageing-scientists-cash-draws-scepticism-1.16895
One of them is "hidden" in the numbers in the last sentence.
Then there are a few more numbers in this article:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2015_02_12/caredit.a1500039
Have a great weekend everyone.