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Show Me The Science Month Day 5 Speciation Genetics is, in a sense, an oxymoron. Genetics is the study of heritable characteristics, but the researchers who study speciation genetics are looking for genes that cause inheritance to fail. They ... the genetic incompatibilities that keep species apart. Speciation is about how a population of similar, interbreeding organisms ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 31 2009 - 11:28pm - 0 attachments

The origin of species may be almost as random as a throw of the dice, says Iosif Pinelis, a professor of mathematical sciences at Michigan Technological University, who claims to have worked out a mathematical solution to a biological puzzle: Why is the t ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2009 - 11:17pm - 0 attachments

... leading evolutionary biologists working in the field of speciation. Orr is about to receive a major prize in the field, the ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 31 2009 - 6:12pm - 0 attachments

Charles Darwin often gets lumped together with Karl Marx in an effort to ascribe the ills of the 20th century to Darwin's ideas about evolution. But science writer Matt Ridley explains why Darwin's ideas are closer to Adam Smith's than they are to ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 22 2009 - 12:35am - 0 attachments

... uncovered with molecular features that are involved in speciation among invertebrates. Moreover, ZP-N domains are also found in ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2009 - 3:09pm - 0 attachments

Can you tell why this passage comparing Darwin's finches and humans is wrong? Many paths lay open when the finches first arrived, and the smallest flights and trials of their descendants were rewarded. That is why they have traveled in more direction ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 17 2009 - 2:28am - 0 attachments

... how does that happen? The most commonly invoked models of speciation are allopatric and sympatric speciation.  Other, related models of speciation include peripatric ...

Blog Post - Ian Ramjohn - Dec 27 2008 - 12:45am - 0 attachments

... split into several daughter lineages (a process known as speciation ).  This figure from the Wikipedia article on speciation summarises the different modes of speciation. In order to ...

Article - Ian Ramjohn - Dec 20 2008 - 12:18am - 0 attachments

... environment by then, and we are seeing the results of speciation occurring at high latitude," Sidor said. "Here we have really good ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2008 - 9:39pm - 1 attachment

... this fits reasonably well with existing ideas about human speciation, particularly with the fact that humans in their modern form start ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 23 2008 - 12:03am - 0 attachments