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In one sense, I am happy that there is enough interest in the concept of “junk DNA” (and by extension, my area of research in genome size evolution) that the subject gets regular media attention. A few months ago, it was all about the ENCODE project ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Jun 6 2013 - 6:00am - 0 attachments

... hear about natural selection and many immediately focus on speciation.  Yet, the first claim is simply wrong, while the second isn't ... see that natural selection isn't about strength or even speciation.  It is an explanatory theory that allows us to examine why we ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - May 23 2013 - 1:05pm - 0 attachments

... it be the concept of natural selection or ideas about speciation, Intelligent Design (ID) purports to reconcile the observed ... understood, the process gave rise to their own class of "speciation" events giving rise to helicopters,ultra-lights, and other modes of ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - May 7 2013 - 1:48pm - 0 attachments

Evolution is misunderstood by millions.   And, it has to be said, a lot of the time, this problem isn't helped by the way things are reported   on the TV or in the news . These are the 5 most common terms that, when I hear ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Apr 18 2013 - 3:13pm - 0 attachments

... statement ,"In groups like tadpole shrimps where cryptic speciation is common, the fossil record says very little about patterns of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2013 - 10:15am - 0 attachments

... heads" very rapidly. This process can rapidly lead to speciation (one species splitting into two). The small-headed populations are ... viviparous sea snakes as a promising system for studies of speciation and adaptive radiation in marine environments." Published in ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2013 - 11:00am - 0 attachments

... of a species, for example. But what force could drive speciation along an unbroken coastline with no obvious barriers to gene flow? ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2013 - 12:57pm - 0 attachments

... in evolutionary biology where diversification, or speciation, has occurred such that a large number of species occupy a wide ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2013 - 11:32am - 0 attachments

... This great stability goes hand in hand with the low speciation rate of conifers. The world is currently home to only 600 species of ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2012 - 1:40pm - 0 attachments

... on previous studies, the researchers expected to see bird speciation slowing down, but they instead found that birds' speciation rate is increasing, not declining. "Perhaps birds are special," ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2012 - 3:47pm - 0 attachments