This Week in Evolution
"Darwinian Agriculture" (2010?) author R. Ford Denison and occasional guests discuss recent scientific-journal articles about evolution.
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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
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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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
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