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... evolutionary history: February 9th: The Speciation Is Explosive! Today's paper is a DNA comparison study of the ... 1st: Hunting for Genes that Keep Species Separate Speciation Genetics is, in a sense, an oxymoron. Genetics is the study of ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2009 - 12:42pm - 0 attachments

... changes in copulatory organ size and shape can spur speciation by making individuals from different populations sexually ... continue to shape the way species diverge well after speciation has occurred. The speed and magnitude of divergence within O. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2008 - 1:08pm - 1 attachment

Michael White made a comment in response to a poorly explained point I made about behaviours in the original version of Twelve Misunderstandings of Evolution, but in his haste to present his own take on the issue he added this: “The reason tigers hunt alo ...

Article - Steve Davis - Nov 10 2010 - 2:19pm - 0 attachments

... research go from here? The members of the Marie Curie SPECIATION Network have recently published a list of what they perceive to be key questions on the topic of speciation, as a guide for future studies. These questions were divided into ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Nov 8 2011 - 8:29pm - 0 attachments

... from the mass extinction through incremental evolution and speciation. "It means the (terrestrial ecosystems) were more subject to ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2011 - 11:30pm - 0 attachments

... that the findings add further weight to the concept of "speciation by infection," in which a combination of infectious diseases ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2011 - 5:29pm - 0 attachments

Just being in the presence of attractive women make men do stupid things-  or at least take more risks, according to a study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science . According to researchers, testosterone levels increased ...

Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Mar 21 2010 - 9:30pm - 0 attachments

Obsession with duality     In the west we like to think in terms of dualities. Well known examples from diverse fields ranging from philosophy to physics included the physical/metaphysical duality in philosophy, the mind/brain duality in ...

Blog Post - Steve Donaldson - Jan 24 2011 - 10:29am - 0 attachments

... in short periods of time - huge jumps associated with speciation events. It basically was created by paleontologists Niles ... be expecting it should fall their way - peripatric speciation may do something weird instead because voters, both conservatives ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Jul 26 2011 - 11:40am - 0 attachments

The title is not a tease but is an exercise in abstraction. I spend most of my free mind time thinking about one or the other of these two subjects. Can I find any overlap in the research going on in these two? That was the challenge. I hope you don’t min ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Jul 23 2011 - 4:38pm - 0 attachments