I'm reading a book chapter by Peter Stadler from 2002 called Landscapes and Effective Fitness [1]. It has this absolutely gorgeous figur...

Bjørn's two rules of being a good speaker: Love the words that you speak Always have something to say An engaged speaker is more en...

[The following is a post written for BEACON .] What is epistasis? Epistasis is a measure of the strength of epistatic interactions. Epist...

Did I fool you for a moment?

How often do you go "shiiiiiiiiiiit, so that's how it is!?!" What would really shock you? "FUCK! I never thought that wou...

These are the new papers for the last couple of weeks that I would like to read but will probably never get to. Gone are the days of the pol...

A new wealth of articles by the ENCODE (the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) consortium suggest that far more of the human genome carries out ...

The 51st edition of Carnival of Evolution is up at The Stochastic Scientist: Darwin's Restaurant . There's something on the menu for...

There must be lots of people out there on the interwebz with questions about evolution. People are evidently very interested, whether they ...

Here's pickings from the last month of new papers in evolution. Those are just the ones that popped out at me in the tocs, but there are...

For the love of references! If the submitted posts didn't all have references for support, they do now, because host of the 50th CoE ...

With his "holey adaptive landscapes", Sergey Gavrilets (e.g. 1997) solved the problem of crossing valleys of low fitness in the fi...

The 13th conference on Artificial Life is going on right now at Michigan State University. Follow tweets at #alife13 , and see program her...

Why is there something rather than nothing? Pick your favorite reason among Michael Shermer's picks  in Nothing is Negligible: Why The...

Some like to define living organisms as that which 1) reproduces, 2) has inheritance, and 3) has variation. In other words, living th...

Here we are a group of bloggers in Quebec just across the border from Ottawa having poutine . Jerry Coyne , Rosie Redfield (blue hair), T. ...

Lots of people are tweeting from the Evolution 2012 conference in Ottawa. It's the biggest evolution conference ever - first joint No...

CoE #49 is up at the Mousetrap . This is Joachim Dagg's blog, and he really likes mousetraps. I suppose this may be inspired by Michael ...

[ Repost from July 4th, 2009 .] On this 4th of July allow me to quote that famous sentence from the Declaration of Independence : "We h...

When one gene comes under a new selection pressure, a population can respond by increasing the frequency of the better alleles. This can inv...