Showing posts with label population genetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label population genetics. Show all posts
Monday, May 9, 2016

Darwin the Newtonian. Part III. In what sense does genetic drift 'exist'?

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I t has been about 50 years since Motoo Kimora and King and Jukes proposed that a substantial fraction of genetic variation can be selectiv...
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Thursday, September 10, 2015

What population genetic diversity can and can't tell us

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By Anne Buchanan and Ken Weiss G enetic diversity is indisputably a marker of geographic origin and human migration.  The reason is very s...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Are we still doing 'beanbag' eu(genetics)? Part I. Some history

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W ay back in 1964, a famous paper was published in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (vol 7: 343-359, and  reprinted in the Internation...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

What if Rev Jenyns had agreed? Part III. 'Group' selection in individuals, too.

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W e have been using Darwin's and Wallace's somewhat different views of evolution to address some questions of evolutionary genetics...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

What if Rev Jenyns had agreed? Part I. Would evolutionary theory be different?

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I n 2006 I wrote an article about the long potential impact that historical quirks can have on science, based on the fact that in 1831 an A...
Monday, June 2, 2014

The visible colors: and the falseness of human races as natural categories

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T here is a constant tension between the tendencies to view the world in continuous vs discrete terms.  Even in science, this can be a probl...
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