Selection and lactase persistence
I received a letter about lactase persistence that motivated me to a fairly long reply; I thought I would share the question and answer:
I received a letter about lactase persistence that motivated me to a fairly long reply; I thought I would share the question and answer:
Nature this week has a nice news article about the evolution of lactase persistence by Andrew Curry: “Archaeology: The milk revolution”. The article discusse...
I’m totally socked in with work this week, but this new paper in Nature is an interesting piece of archaeological chemistry relevant to diet change in the Eu...
Ben Phelan at Slate writes about the recent evolution of lactase persistence: “The Most Spectacular Mutation in Recent Human History”.
Technical issues caused me to miss lecture 12, which was about metaphyses and the growth of the skeleton, as cues for life history evolution.
This may sound like a dumb question, but I am trying to understand the difference between selection on standing variation and the concept of exaptation. They...