"When you get a tick up your nose, you tell the story"
My University of Wisconsin-Madison colleague Tony Goldberg has a new paper doing some innovative ecological genetics: “UW scientist sniffs out possible new t...
All posts tagged with ecology
Alfred Crosby interviewed
Last week I linked to an article about the dispersal of the potato (“How the Potato Changed the World”). Smithsonian also has an interview with Alfred Crosby...
Invasive argument
I’ve been reading a lot about invasive species lately, for reasons which will soon become apparent.
Mailbag: Pitcher potties
Re: Another side of pitcher plants:
The utility of theoretical models
I’m reading through Peter Turchin’s 1998 book, Quantitative Analysis of Movement, for a project I’m working on. I found that his second chapter gives a very ...
What restrained the chimpanzees?
Working on a paper about early hominid lineage diversity, Milford [Wolpoff] has pointed out a sticking point in consideration of niche breadth in early homin...