Notable: Coevolution drives biological complexity
Notable paper: Zaman L, Meyer JR, Devangam S, Bryson DM, Lenski RE, et al. (2014) Coevolution Drives the Emergence of Complex Traits and Promotes Evolvabilit...
All posts tagged with theory
ARG is the word
Adam Siepel has written a very useful explainer about a new preprint he has posted with Matthew Rasmussen on the arXiv preprint server: “Our Paper: Genome-wi...
Anthropological Theory and Ethnography
Welcome to the homepage for Anthropology 300, Anthropological Theory and Ethnography
Quote: E. E. Evans-Pritchard on social anthropology and humanities
From “Social anthropology: Past and present”, a 1950 publication of a lecture by E. E. Evans-Pritchard:
Measuring differences between populations
When individuals mate locally, different populations tend to diverge from each other in the frequencies of their alleles. Genetic differences between populat...
Overdominance and rapid adaptation
Introduction
From genes to numbers: effective population sizes in human evolution
Demography is the engine of evolution. Changes in allele frequencies require differential births and deaths of the individuals who carry the alleles. Under n...
DNA relatives
Steve Mount works through the math of “relative finder” predictions from 23andMe (and by extension, other personal genome tests): “Genetic genealogy and the ...
mtDNA, purifying selection and "distorted" genealogies
I’m going to pass along this paper without much comment, it’s by Jon Seger and colleagues and it came out earlier this year in Genetics Seger:2010:
Multiregional evolution vs. Out of Africa
It’s that time of the semester—exam time—and I’m getting a lot of questions from my students by e-mail. One of the most common questions is how to differenti...