I get quite a few anonymous comments to random posts. They are random in that there is no apparent correlation between the content of my pos...

PZ Myers has a post on the evolutionary origins of complexity: αEP: Complexity is not usually the product of selection I find it frustrati...

For those unawares (prolly all), I post these titles in evolution i) as a reminder to myself when I skim the numerous eTOCs that I get in my...

54th edition is up at ideonexus.com: Carnival of Evolution #54: A Walkabout Mount Improbable . And it's a super-fancy one, so don'...

There are simply too many interesting papers published in evolutionary biology to keep up with. Not even just reading the abstracts is feasi...

I'm an evolutionary and computational biologist doing my second postdoc at Michigan State University. I have learned all sorts of thing ...

I seriously have trouble believing this. Can anybody shed some light? It's from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Wikipedia on...

What is the origin of new genes? In order to do new stuff, new genes are needed. Where do they come from, then? Horizontal gene transfer (...

David Morrison just hosted Carnival f Evolution #52 , and now he has written a post with lots of statistics of CoE: The network history of t...

Here we go again with the new articles on evolution. This is just a very small sample that I chose out of interest from the last couple of ...

Yesterday I went to the annual Thomas S Whittam Memorial Lecture here at MSU. Howard Ochman talked about "Evolutionary Forces Affecti...

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 ...