Evolution of the monkeyflowers
Spring has finally come to us here in the North, and it's time to start thinking about planting. So, when I went to a seminar yesterday by John Willis, it w...
Spring has finally come to us here in the North, and it's time to start thinking about planting. So, when I went to a seminar yesterday by John Willis, it w...
I'm doing some research for an essay, which relies quite a bit on the work of Dobzhansky and a few of his contemporaries. There are some great quotes that I...
I found this passage in the discussion following T. Dale Stewart's paper, "The problem of the earliest claimed representatives of Homo sapiens," from the 19...
I ran across this paper from a few years ago by John Avise and DeEtte Walker, which considers the implication of reticulation-based species concepts for mt...
On a bit of a writing junket for his book, Mankind Evolving, in 1963 Theodosius Dobzhansky put an essay in Current Anthropology titled "Anthropology and the...
Lawrence Krauss has commentary in the NY Times about the recent Kansas State Board of Education elections:
If hybrid zones are transient, what are the likely outcomes? One possibility is that hybrid zones represent secondary contact and neutral diffusion, that the...
Two hypotheses, discussed by Burke and Arnold (2001):