T his is the forest primeval.  The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, ...

E volution is the process that generates the relationships between genomes and traits in organisms.  Although we have written extensively an...

By Ken Weiss and Anne Buchanan T he Big Story in the latest Nature  ("A radical revision of human genetics: Why many ‘deadly’ gene ...

W ell, this week's sensational result is reported in the Oct 5  Nature  in a paper about limits to the human lifespan. The un sensatio...

I f you're a bike rider, as I am, you know that there is a huge market out there trying to lure you into a really, really fancy bike.  B...

I t often happens in science that our theory of some area of reality is very precise, but the reality is too complex to work out precisely,...

This is an abridged syllabus for my course this fall. Apologies for any formatting issues, but copying and pasting from Word into Blogger is...