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Crop Species May Be More Vulnerable To Climate Change Than We Thought

... has overturned a long-standing hypothesis about plant speciation (the formation of new and distinct species in the course of ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2014 - 11:57pm - 0 attachments

Nuclear Gene Sequencing In The Sunflower Family - Now On GitHub

... genes for orthology (i.e., for their ability to reflect speciation events and, therefore, to accurately reconstruct phylogenetic ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2014 - 4:29pm - 0 attachments

Tropics Are Main Source Of Global Mammal Diversity

... species with latitude data, the researchers estimated speciation - the rate at which new species emerge -, extinction, and species ... peaks in species richness are associated with high speciation rates, low extinction rates, or both, depending on which mammalian ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2014 - 11:55am - 0 attachments

Undermine Science By Redefining It

A common technique of activists and people who generally distrust science and want to undermine it is to clog up the discourse with sophistry, like "it depends on how you define X", or they claim that their personal belief means science is not science, bu ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 26 2014 - 11:19pm - 0 attachments

Clymene Dolphin Resulted From A Natural Genetic Modification

... Lovewell G, Coelho MM, Amato G, Rosenbaum HC (2014) Hybrid Speciation in a Marine Mammal: The Clymene Dolphin (Stenella clymene). PLoS ONE ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2014 - 7:00am - 0 attachments

Divergent Evolution Of New Species Is Not Genetically Expensive

... species. To reveal genetic differences critical for speciation,the researchers analyzed the genomes of two closely related ... regular gene flow mutes genetic variants unimportant to speciation, allowing them to identify key genetic areas affected by natural ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2013 - 3:26pm - 0 attachments

Dear Mr. Dollo: You Were Both Right and Wrong

... and (I'm being extrapolative here) eventually lead to sub-speciation (assuming the species lasts another 1-10 million years). I am ... fact, I'm sure they would have been necessary for a lot of speciation events (which, of course, were not real "events" but long periods of ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Aug 26 2013 - 10:23am - 0 attachments

National Academy Of Sciences 'Misled The World' When Adopting Radiation Exposure Guidelines

Toxicologist Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has dropped cultural bombs on both the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and two scientists who provided crucial information for Atomic Age carcinogen risk assessment. Regardin ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2013 - 3:39pm - 0 attachments

Anti-Darwinism Dominating Progressive Science Outreach

... behavior as well as Rejection of gradualism before speciation , which I leave for last since it is to do with "racism". ... on behavior and the rejection of gradualism before speciation are closely related to rejecting the central role of genes in ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 21 2013 - 10:25pm - 0 attachments

Why Race Is Pseudo-Science

Recently several posts have played the "race" card and elicited all manner of responses, but at its root, the fundamental premise had not actually been examined.  Is "race" a valid concept? I know that many people will immediately experience a kne ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jul 15 2013 - 2:56pm - 0 attachments