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- Put MOOCs to the test
- Cooperation => deception?
- Sampling Daphnia from a canoe, in the snow, May 3...
- Handwritten data to CSV file without typing
- Eukaryote origins, cicadas, and silkworm sex
- High-school student undermines our "famine-food longevity" hypothesis, maybe
- YouTube videos go fungal...
- This week's picks
- Fake journals and conferences in NYT
- Tradeoff-free longevity?
- Carnival of Evolution
- Persistent polymorphisms, enhancing mutation, new fossils, cooperation & conservation
- Darwinian Agriculture at the International Rice Research Institute
- More conference spam... from Nature
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- Cooperation, inducible defense, cancer, and more
- Copying in birds, dolphins, and viruses; evolution & environmental change; evolution of mutation rate
- More fake-scientific-conference spam from BIT Life Sciences
- Mimic defectors to keep them from winning... and more
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- Speciation without separation, self-recognizing roots, understanding evolution key to controlling cancer
- This week's picks
- Considering grad school?
- Carnival of Evolution
- Wrinkled fingers, spandrels, and an adaptationist approach to applied evolutionary biology
- A citation a day keeps ideas in play
- What's for dinner?
- Modular mice, experimental evolution, Bayesian enzymes, environmental extinction
- Predictability, multiple fitness peaks, fungus-growing ants, pesticide resistance...
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- Antibiotic resistance, camouflage, exinction...
- Grad school without an undergrad degree?
- Quorum sensing, rabid bats, birds, and pigs
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- Guest post: THE DAVID ATTENBOROUGH STYLE OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATION
- Cooking key to cognition; corals recruit bodyguards; etc.
- Carnival of evolution
- Ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change
- Wondering why you can't access the New York Times from China?
- A new blog, focused on Darwinian Agriculture
- Comment contamination?
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- Darwinian Agriculture reviewed in Science
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- Carnival of Evolution
- Diversity of Opinions on Diversity
- Two science scams in one day !
- Blogs discussing Darwinian Agriculture
- Comments on Forbes article on biomimicry
- This week: fossils, epidemics, cooperation, and aging
- Ink content of inkjet cartridges
- Somebody liked my book
- This week's picks
- Biomimicry of forests or trees?
- The importance of titles
- Another route to drought-tolerant crops?
- Small farmers benefit from transgenic insect resistant crops... but what about cheaters?
- Fossils, convergent evolution, cooperation, and "groundwater footprints"
- Darwinian agriculture and Darwinian medicine: beyond resistance management
- Defense against malaria, cuckoos, mobile elements, and creationists
- ResearchGate, Google Circles, Linked In -- useful or annoying?
- Correcting Science and PNAS, evolution of more-deadly suicide bombers, blind composers, transcending tradeoffs, light-responsive rhizobia
- Page 99 test
- This View of Life
- Using "Darwinian Agriculture" for a seminar class?
- The Macroecology of Sustainability
- Grok Science interview -- limitations of transgenic drought-tolerant crops and, uh, learning from wild potatoes, etc.
- At least they spelled my name right
- University of Minnesota UROP Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
- Crossing the border
- Thousands protest suppression of science in Canada -- the "Death of Evidence" rally
- Sold out!
- Evolution 2012, people
- Evolution of cooperation in Ottawa
- Evolution of aging talks at Evolution 2012 in Ottawa
- Live from Ottawa
- Evolutionary tradeoffs and drought-tolerant crops
- Two upcoming meetings
- Multicellular Yeast Defeats Rotifer
- Scientific tourism in Hawaii: beyond beeches
- A current research update and remembering 1970's student-originated undergrad research at Evergreen
- Carnival of Evolution
- This week's picks
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- A taste of Darwinian Agriculture
- Scientific retractions and competition for jobs
- Perverse incentives in science
- The tortoise and the tortoise
- Cumulative culture and cooperation in humans and other primates
- Collapse and upper-class greed?
- Is diet soda bad for us? An evolutionary perspective.
- Several interesting papers this week
- This week's picks
- Measuring fitness benefits to rhizobia from symbiosis with legumes
- Carnival of Evolution
- What aspects of nature has natural selection improved?
- This week's picks
- Does our recent work "prove evolution"?
- Also this week...
- Experimental evolution of multicellularity: the movies
- Flycatchers use early birds (great tits) to crowd-source clutch size
- This week's picks
- Pre-order "Darwinian Agriculture"
- Link to Carnival of Evolution
- Shrimp on treadmills
- Evolution tourism
- BRCA linked to reproduction-versus-longevity tradeoff
- This week's picks
- Fighting back against fake-conference spam
- Thanks, Google Scholar !
- This week's picks
- Exporting Livescribe Smartpen notes as a PDF
- Experimental evolution of metabolism, sex, and multicellularity
- A cure for aging? Not yet.
- This week's picks
- Copy-protection strategies in birds
- Inclusive fitness, punishment, migration, dinosaurs
- This week's picks
- Science tourism: transit of Venus
- Neanderthals, damselflies, jellyfish, birds, and oomycetes, oh my!
- This week's picks
- Education as a tragedy of the commons
- Reciprocity maintains cooperation between plants and mycorrhizal fungi
- This week's picks
- Nitrogen-fixing cereals?
- Are we doomed?
- Carnival of Evolution
- This week's picks
- Would IEEE really sponsor a fake scientific conference?
- Beneficial infections?
- This week's picks
- Evolution of human cooperation
- Resistance is futile!
- Another fake conference?
- Carnival of evolution
- The "boy pill", assortative mating, and human evolution
- This week's picks
- This is not a press release
- Update
- In hospital...
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- Darwinian agriculture: health benefits of organic vegetables
- Lots of evolution blogs
- Butterflies, plants, ants, bacteria, and birds
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- Fake "scientific conferences"
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- PDF available for our Perspective in Science
- Fake World Congress of Agricultural Biotechnology?
- Carnival of Evolution Blogs
- Are antibiotics weapons, signals, cues, or manipulation?
- More on PhD glut
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- Almost finished revising Darwinian Agriculture
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- Transferable skills
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- International collaboration?
- Inclusive fitness defended
- The beaks of the finches
- Self-sabotage?
- The problem of pronatalist professors
- Tsunamis, earthquakes, disaster relief... Just Give?
- Aging primates, agricultural ants, efficent cooperation, etc.
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- Sex, sexiness, viruses, nematodes, and horses
- This week's picks
- Free downloads of applied evolution papers...
- Sleep as a survival strategy
- Evolution of cooperation, disease, relatives, birds...
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- H-index and Erdos number
- Want more evolution articles?
- Also this week...
- Plants punish cheaters' relatives
- Modeling reproduction/longevity tradeoffs and phenotypic plasticity in fluctuating environments
- This week's picks
- Making symbiotic rhizobia more efficient
- How inevitable was the origin of life on Earth?
- How "mostly harmless" bacteria manipulate the immune system
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- Our secret is out !
- One evolutionary biology lab's publications in one year match "intelligent design's" 5-year total
- Conditional cooperation and forest management
- Scientific tourism?
- Darwinian agriculture book, plant breeding meeting, grant on evolution of multicellularity...
- Lengthy comment on group selection
- So many papers, so little time
- Do more-durable public goods select for or against cheating?
- This week's picks
- Is it really bet-hedging?
- Carnival of Evolution
- Join my lab?
- This week's picks
- Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective
- Grad school application deadlines in December
- Applied Evolution Summit video (Heron Island)
- Bet-hedging in symbiotic rhizobia from alfalfa nodules
- This week's picks
- Why do leaves really track the sun?
- A Nobel Prize -- congratulations!
- Also this week...
- Garbage in, garbage out, in modeling symbiosis
- Our publications for 2010
- There's much more to Hamilton's rule than haplodiploidy
- Evolution of microbial cooperation, ant/fungus agriculture, aging, sex roles...
- Another way to alarm aphids
- Local food?
- Evolution-proof pest-resistant crops?
- "Bigger splash in the gene pool" made a splash on the web
- Evolutionary history of yucca moths
- A plague of "comments"
- Reversing evolution: crops evolving into weeds
- Directed evolution versus intelligent design of enzymes
- Carnival of evolution
- Earliest multicellular life? Maybe not.
- Thanks, Olivia!
- Evolution meetings in Portland
- Are scientists smarter than squirrels?
- No evolution this week
- Cancer's deep evolutionary roots
- Sexual imprinting in redheads
- It's not all junk -- and it evolves!
- Creation disproved?
- 15 minutes of fame
- Tenure, seniority, and the benefits of incumbency
- Evolution of DNA methylation in animals, plants, and fungi
- E-word in NYT -- a bigger surprise than Roundup-ready weeds?
- Do legume hosts benefit from suppressing rhizobial reproduction?
- Transgenic aphids
- Sanctions and cheating in pollination and protection mutualisms
- Collaboration via Skype and the joys of 3 monitors
- Sex bias in lizards
- Revising my book
- Why hasn't natural selection eliminated Alzheimer's?
- Evolution via less-fit intermediates
- Evolution of symbiosis
- Science fairs versus real scientific meetings
- Happy Darwin Day!
- Tradeoff-free drought resistance?
- Carnival of evolution
- Rafting
- Evolution threatens Darwin
- Altruistic punishment by fig trees?
- Travel tips: free WiFi etc. in Brisbane
- Tradeoff-free longevity?
- Delaying reproduction: the "disposable germline" hypothesis
- Wildlife and plants near Brisbane?
- Better ant fungus farming through chemistry
- Not so fast!
- Celebrating "The Origin of Species" everywhere
- Off-topic: Jam Hound helps musicians improve their skills
- Are ants' fungus gardens a source or sink for nitrogen?
- Return of the viruses
- Experimental evolution of bet hedging
- About "This Week in Evolution" and R. Ford Denison
- Experimental evolution meets genomics
- Experimental evolution of sex (revised)
- Evolving resistance to cheaters
- Darwin at the Smithsonian
- Local TV new blows Ardipithecus story
- Off topic: Frank view of blasphemy
- Off topic: Sears spied on customers
- Guest Blog: Sneaky slime mold
- How to maybe possibly get a grant
- Applied Evolution Summit
- Where do new genes come from?
- Effective communication on preserving crop diversity
- This is scary
- Peacock comment
- Are antibiotics a weapon or a signal?
- Vertical farms: a pyramid scheme?
- Are these the same evolutionary biologists who advised Hitler?
- Mimicry based on attractive odors -- or scary ones
- Ants versus fungi
- Highly conserved, but how important?
- Grants!
- Microbes evolve; flies evolve and learn
- This is a joke, right?
- Join my lab?
- Biofilms as selfish herds
- Short version of our aging paper
- What really causes tradeoffs between longevity and reproduction?
- Has natural selection been asleep at the switch?
- Throwing the longevity switch
- The bitter fountain of youth
- Traveling
- Whom do cheating bacteria cheat: host plants or other bacteria?
- Livescribe SmartPen Review and solution to "unable to access your database folders" problem
- Oxytocin and the genetics of altruism
- "If evolution is true, why are there still chimps?"
- Sibling rivalry in plants
- Abolish tenure?
- Optimal bet-hedging?
- Mindless manipulation
- Evolution-Proof?
- How fast can sexual traits evolve?
- Facts and theory in Coyne’s “Why evolution is true”
- No butterflies were harmed by this research
- "I.B.M. Said to Be in Talks to Buy Sun for $7 Billion"
- Experimental evolution of an RNA world
- What I should have said to Richard Dawkins
- Science Fair Secrets 4: start early, work hard
- Mixed infections, for better or worse
- 20 February 2009
- Happy 200th birthday, Charles Darwin!
- Cake for Darwin Day
- Happy Darwin Day!
- Research funding and economic stimulus
- Inferring details of past evolution from DNA is tricky
- Staying ahead in the evolutionary arms race with viruses
- Making scientific careers family-friendly
- Safe-crackers have vaults in their cells
- Liberal education, basic research, and Neal Stephenson's "Anathem"
- Grooming and groveling reduces meerkat stress
- Ford Denison, amateur scientist
- This year in "intelligent design"
- This year in evolution, in Nature
- Celebrating Science Seasonally
- Spatial structure and the evolution of cooperation between microbes and plants
- Intelligent design falls into chaos?
- December 5
- We cooperators need to stick together
- November 21
- November 14
- Can an NPR gene explain gregarious and solitary behavior?
- Ook! Another librarian for Obama
- An evolutionary sampler
- Cooperative fish, cheating ants
- Experimental evolution of predation and sexual attractiveness
- Book review: Uneasy relations
- Social intelligence
- Who suffers from stress?
- Evolution of mental illness
- Conflict builds cooperation
- Brief note on thumbs and junk DNA
- How does gene duplication allow evolutionary innovation?
- Bias in science vs. honest errors
- Ask the right experts
- The bird in the mirror
- What's that smell?
- Would the host want anyone to starve?
- More talks from Evolution 2008
- Busy
- Celebrating ignorance with Sherlock Holmes
- Evolution 2008: sexy plants, battling bacteria, durable cooperation
- Guest blog: The Peacock's Tale
- There are none so blind...
- Evolution 2008 in Minnesota
- Explaining the evolutionary persistence of persisters
- Traditional values in bees
- Pest control for ants
- Sex! Identity theft! Burying beetles!
- Regulation of sex ratios in plants
- Real vs. fake controversy
- Sharing diseases with relatives and neighbors
- Science fair secrets 3: The $250 science lab
- Gene networks: evolved not designed
- Readers' Choice!
- Separate vacations and other sexual differences
- Dumbing down intelligent design
- Fear of flying -- in plants
- Welcome, fellow Dr. Tatiana fans!
- Evolutionary trees
- Learning vs. lifespan?
- Which explains the origin of the earth?
- Oestrus Island
- 100th post: reversing evolution II: mimicry in snakes
- Why we need peer review
- Tricky parasites winning the evolutionary arms race
- Knowing when not to cheat
- Reversing evolution: conspicuous mimicry vs. camoflage
- Looking for junk DNA?
- Science Fair Secrets 2: Repeat Your Experiment
- Career vs. beer?
- Natural enemies complicate reproductive tradeoffs
- Science Fair Secrets 1: Use Scientific Sources
- Ancient temperatures inferred from DNA
- Natural ecosystems as a source of ideas
- Choosy mothers may choose wisely
- Altruistic punishment? Maybe not.
- Sustainable Darwinian Agriculture and Organic Tomatoes
- Ants en't ents
- This year in intelligent design
- Lots of interesting papers...
- MPen is mightier than MSword
- The ghost of infections past, present, and future
- Atheism and religious satire?
- Controlling sex ratios
- Update: kin selection in plants and bacteria?
- Conflict over parental care
- Biological evolution vs. word games
- Communication doesn't automatically prevent cheating
- When hybrids are best
- When did social learning evolve?
- Group selection is dead; get over it!
- R! How can relatedness be negative?
- Soybean symbiosis isn't what it used to be
- Evolution of language
- Faster speciation in the tropics?
- Grad school as an epic quest
- Menopause in whales
- Cooperation and cheating in microbes: quorum sensing and persisters
- Thanks, Google Scholar!
- Menopause trade-offs
- The pirate code
- Money for monkeys
- Evolving enzymes in the lab
- Evolution avoidance syndrome
- If it's junk, can we get rid of it?
- Whose genes are these, anyway?
- Selfish sperm cells
- Scientist glut as a tragedy of the commons
- Evolution of cooperation reviewed
- Almost a no-brainer
- Defining "transformative research" for NSF
- Cooperation gets complex
- Ecology meetings
- Catfish beats Columbus to America
- Left behind: social amoebae
- Didn't mean to be unKIND
- Darwinian Agriculture III
- Begging: the question
- Diversity, stability, productivity, and policing
- Low-cost cooperation
- Farewell and funding
- Rhizobia, pesticides, and peer review
- Gifted education and science fairs
- Selection beats design, again
- Tagged
- Tracing the spread of agriculture with stone-age human DNA
- Individual and kin selection in legume-rhizobium mutualism
- Trade-offs in defense against retroviruses
- Opportunity cost of grad school, etc.
- Choosing a major professor
- Who should consider grad school in science?
- Can plants recognize kin?
- Strange searches
- A junkyard for natural selection?
- Rock-paper-scissors for high stakes
- Scientific controversy: dinosaur-tail soup ?
- Coevolution and gene flow
- Rapid evolution of beneficial infections
- Helpful cheaters?
- Who are you?
- Evolution of babysitting in bluebirds
- How disturbed are most cheaters, really?
- Roots
- Bigger males, or smaller females?
- This year in intelligent design
- Darwinian agriculture II
- Evolutionary sound bites
- Darwinian agriculture I
- Can a selfish gene stop malaria?
- Evolution of color vision: transgenic mice see red
- Splitting species: sneak attacks from strategic hamlets
- Less-vicious viruses evolve in viscous cannibal populations
- Troll refuge may prevent local extinction
- Experiments with "fitness landscapes" explain evolution of interacting genes
- Teenage chimps with spears and hammers
- Experimental evolution: play dead or fly away?
- Evolutionary trade-offs: how are soybeans like salmon?
- Evolution triumphs over photosynthesis
- What's new in evolution? Lots!
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