Something like that, but I must say that I don’t know this part of history particularly well.
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Something like that, but I must say that I don’t know this part of history particularly well.
See you in Cleveland in June?
Ah, yes, nice!
That made me curious too. I hadn't heard about them before.
It seems like the following year they held their meeting with the Classification Society of North America. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Great logo for the 1995 Evolution meeting in Montreal.
There's also Bernard Nieuwentyt, who Paley has been accused of plagiarising.
It was so great to have you involved, Philippe!
Just received !
Thanks again to Arvin @arvidagren.bsky.social and Manus Patten for this great collection of paper, and the very exciting writing process!!
#organism #evolution #philbio
I haven’t read the preprint carefully enough, but the phylogeny may be large enough that they are confident to rule such effects.
Not necessarily.
The spread of selfish genetic elements can depend on mating system and population structure in nuanced ways.
But in general, outbreeding help. Drivers need to be heterozygous to drive and are more likely to encounter genomes lacking co-evolved suppressors.
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Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Nature News on the tantalising possibility of the first documented sex-ratio distorter in humans.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
pp. 477-478 in Watching
Morris was no football man.
Yet in 1977 he became director of Oxford United.
He worked hard to understand this new culture, including by joining the drinking games.
Yeah. Reading the foreword itself it’s not obvious that Mourinho actually read the book.
The answer is Desmond Morris, whose The Soccer Tribe has had a (rather tame) foreword by José Mourinho added to it.
Thursday trivia:
Which evolutionary biologist has written a book with a foreword by José Mourinho?
Wonderful!
It's really full of gems
I know! I was surprised by that part too.
In their defence, Lewontin had never heard of Tinbergen's four questions.
davidsloanwilson.world/online-conte...
From his wonderful “A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford 1900-1960” (2023, p. xv)
“These sorts of things are entirely and eminently effable. And I should be very grateful if you’d try to eff a few of them for your essay next week.”
Nikhil Krishnan encounters Oxford philosophy for the fist time.
As always, if you're interested in reviewing a book for BioScience, please reach out!
Another great book review in BioScience.
This time by Nick Bailey who discusses Noah Rosenberg's"Mathematical Properties of Population-Genetic Statistics: Quadratic Forms Most Beautiful" from @princetonupress.bsky.social.
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
From:
Cohen MP. 2022. George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy. Palgrave MacMillan, p. 8
George Williams in 1962.
Agreed. When you’re baking a cake, you’re allowed to pick the best cherries.
Yeah I wonder how thought out it is.
He was very taken by Popper as a grad student, for example