Spatial dispersal, parallel adaptation, and the "Stooge effect"
Peter Ralph and Graham Coop have an interesting paper in the current Genetics, titled, “Parallel Adaptation: One or Many Waves of Advance of an Advantageous ...
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The other story about the mammoth DNA
I got to writing about a story a couple of years ago, and then stalled out. That happens every so often – remember, most of my research-related entries are m...
Quote: Fisher on the limits of diffusion
R. A. Fisher and Sewall Wright introduced diffusion approximation methods into genetics; Fisher (1937) was the first to consider spatial disperal using a rea...
Spatial variation and near-fixed selected alleles
I couple of people have asked me about a new paper in PLoS Genetics by Graham Coop and colleagues, titled, “The role of geography in human adaptation.” The p...
Upcoming appearances
I will be giving two public lectures out of town later this week.
Surfing and recent selection
Genetic Future and Gene Expression have commented today on the relative roles of selection and demography in shaping the genetic differences between populati...