A new paper in Nature b y Levy et al. r eports on the genomic consequences of large-scale selection experiments in yeast.  Yeast reproduc...

Is the nature/nurture question finally solved? Are we who we are as a consequence of luck?  A paper in Science, Freund et al., "Emergen...

Rare variants don't explain disease risk We're still catching up on readings after a long Thanksgiving weekend, so are just getting...

Tuesday's news stories reveal that Bulgaria rather than Romania (Transylvania) has provided us with some skeletal remains of what are ...

It's well-known that 'the' human genome doesn't exist -- despite the hype about the complete sequencing of this thing (and d...

That was then... Ibn al-Shatir 's model for the appearances of Mercury, showing the multiplication of epicycles in a Ptolemaic en...