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Writing tagged: ‘genetics’

Waddya know? It's a tree!

Massive genetic study reconstructs tree of life. New Scientist was wrong shock!

Published 03-May-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: cladistics, genetics, hype, new scientist, tree of life

Dead trees

Letter to New Scientist re. their 'Darwin was wrong' cover.

Published 24-Jan-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: charles darwin, genetics, hype, new scientist, tree of life

Hands off our tree!

Why Darwin's metaphor of an evolutionary tree is good enough.

Published 23-Jan-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: charles darwin, genetics, hype, new scientist, tree of life

Deconstructing Watson

Why we need to be careful when reporting stories on genetics/race/intelligence.

Published 09-Dec-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: genetics, intelligence, race, stephen jay gould, watson

Menopause for thought

They're at it again. Sociobiologists are looking for evolutionary explanations for phenomena that don't seem to need them.

Published 19-Sep-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: ageing, evolutionary psychology, genetics, menopause, sociobiology

Holy crap! This is so totally cool!

Remains of dodo found in Mauritius.

Published 01-Jul-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: dna, dodos, extinction, genetics, karen james

Not quite so lonesome

Pinta tortoise DNA found on another Galapagos island.

Published 30-Apr-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: conservation, galapagos islands, genetics, lonesome george, reptiles, tortoises

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