Friday, December 27, 2013

Starting a lingustic foray into evolution - cray cray?

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This holiday season, I've learned a new word from my nephews, and that word is 'cray-cray'*. According to my nephews, and the U...
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

The resurrection of Evolutionary Novelties

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I've decided to resurrect the Evolutionary Novelties blog. While I wrote fairly regularly from late 2007 until 2009, I stopped writing ...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Unfortunate arbitrariness at NSF costs our graduate students

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Last week, a student in our lab had an NSF DDIG (Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant) returned without review. The reason is the propo...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Ostra-blog 9. Postasterope barnesi

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It's unfortunately been too long since I've posted an 'ostra-blog', a post about my main study group, the Ostracoda. If you...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Why is the "black box" so complicated??

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I received an e-mail question about a recent article I wrote with a graduate student. The question shows a common misunderstanding of evol...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Dispatch from the front lines of Ray Comfort's Krazee crusade

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The "special" 150th anniversary edition of Origin of Species - the one with 59 pages of anti-scientific banana mush as an introduc...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

10 Great advances in evolution-Nova Beta

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pbs.org has a new format for their web-based information on Evolution. There is a lot of great information there. Here is an article by Ca...