This Week in Evolution
Each week I discuss one of the hundreds of papers with new data on evolution, published in the past month.
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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
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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
Too many papers, not enough time
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
Target audience
When did social learning evolve?
Speaking schedule
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
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, scientist says
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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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!
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Dumbing down intelligent design
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Welcome, fellow Dr. Tatiana fans!
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