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As most of you know, Richard Dawkins is not a fan of the Spandrels paper by Gould and Lewontin [A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme]. A reader has alerted me to a comment that Richard Dawkins posted on Jerry Coyne's blog.
Dawkins said [I was there ...].
I was there (one of the ...
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I'm sure you've all been dying to know how many Nobel Laureates were vegetarians. Well, here's the answer. It was was on the back of a flyer received by one of the Skepchicks [An Appeal to Chickens and Other Logical Fallacies]. She's asking you to review the front part of the flyer to see how ...
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This is a collection of "geneticists" from the latest issue of Genetics (November 2009). How many can you identify? The correct answers are here.
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Almost anything goes in Ontario's House of Commons and debates can be rather lively. However, tradition (and House rules) state that you cannot accuse someone of lying. Here's what happens if you break that rule.
Ted Chudleigh is the Conservative MPP for Halton—a district that includes ...
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The Royal Society of Britain has opened access to a number of classic papers that have been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. One of them is ...
Gould, S. J. and Lewontin, R.C. (1979) The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme. ...
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Michael Clarkson is a biotech postdoc who blogs
at Discount Thoughts. One of his recent thoughts is...
Don't look for "the" structure. He is referring to the fact that the crystal structure of a protein doesn't actually represent the only structure that ...
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On Determining the Structure of a Protein
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One of Ms. Sandwalk's ancestors was William Playfair who invented the pie chart [Bar Graphs, Pie Charts, and Darwin]. That was in 1786.
FOX News has heard of the concept but they don't quite seem to have mastered the technique.
[Hat Tip: GrrlScientist]
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Catalogue of Organisms features these cute little animals on "Taxon of the Week."
If you follow the link on that blog to a more detailed overview of the taxon you get a bonus—a description of why Christopher Taylor didn't make it to the International Conference of Arachnology in Brazil.
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Tuesday November 24, 2009
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-11:00
Symposium V: Taxonomy
Chair: TBA
09:00-09:40
Mary Winsor (University of Toronto)
"Classification is a Census:" Huxley's Private Quarrel
with Darwin and its Public Consequences
09:40-10:20
Kevin Padian (University of California, ...
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Monday November 23, 2009 09:00-11:00Symposium III: Theistic Evolution
Chair: Michael Bourgeois 09:00-09:40 Bernard Lightman (York University) Christian...
Evolutionists in the U.S., 1860-1900 09:40-10:20 Michael Ruse (Florida State University) Are Science and Religion Compatible and If So, ...
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Origin of Species at 150: Day Two
The conference of Origin of Species at 150 was sponsored by The Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Here's the schedule for the first day.
Sunday ...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life was published 150 years ago on November 24, 1859. The publisher, John Murray, had already taken orders for 1,500 copies so the initial printing of 1,250 copies was sold out ...
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I stole this from Bayblab It shows why Canadians like global warming.
Canadian Tourism Federation Welcome Video from Canadian Tourism Federation on Vimeo.
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The creature is the spirochete, Treponema pallidum. This bacteria causes syphilis. The Nobel Laureate is Julius Wagner-Jauregg who discovered a way to treat the lethal form of dementia that develops in the late stages of the disease.There were only three people who got the right answer. All of ...
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PZ Myers and someone named Jerry Bergman debated the question; "Should Intelligent Design be Taught in The Schools?." Bergman said "yes" and PZ said "no."You can read summaries of the debate on Greg Laden's Blog [Bergman vs. Myers Debate: Should Intelligent Design be Taught in The Schools?] and ...
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The average human newborn has about 130 new mutations that were not found in either parent [Mutation Rates]. These mutations accumulate as a natural result of errors in DNA replication between the time that the zygote is first formed and the time that the sperm and egg cells are produced for the ...
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If the average rate of deleterious mutations is about 1 per individual per generation then the species can't survive. It means that most offspring will carry a mutation. This is an intolerable genetic load for a species.In fact it's worse than that. Simple calculations suggest than even a rate ...
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This is another one of those times when there's no "molecule" that provides a clue to a Nobel Laureate. Your task is to identify this creature and the reason why it's important. There are three Nobel Laureates who might be associated with the creature but two of them have already been covered. ...
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Humans have always had a urge to cover their heads with various forms of headgear. There must be a hat gene in our genomes and it probably evolved in the human lineage after it split from chimpanzees. Chimps don't wear hats.If you believe this then you've probably fallen for the idea that FOXP2 ...
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Bill Maher has attempted to clarify his position on vaccination [Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having]. His blog is a lot like his TV show. It's a confusing, rambling, attempt at justifying an indefensible position using sarcasm and anecdote as a substitute for rationalism.The question is ...
