This is the 2019 Killian lecture at MIT, delivered in April 2019 by Gerald Fink. Fink is an eminent scientist who has done excellent work on the molecular biology of yeast. He was director o… Read More

I'm a big fan of Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) and of Zachary Blount's work in particular. [Strolling around slopes and valleys in the adaptive landscape] [On the un… Read More

Evolution by Accidentv1.43 ©2006 Laurence A. MoranThis essay has been transferred here from an old server that has been decommissioned.Modern concepts of evolutionary change are frequen… Read More

A paper announcing the first complete sequence of a human chromosome has recently been posted on the bioRxiv server.Miga, K. H., Koren, S., Rhie, A., Vollger, M. R., Gershman, A., Bzikadze… Read More

It's been more than seven years since I posted information on how much of the human genome has been sequenced [How Much of Our Genome Is Sequenced?]. At that time, the latest version of the… Read More

This the last of a series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Arlin has established that the role of mutation in evolution is much mor… Read More

This is part of a continuing series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. In this post, Arlin explains how defenders of the Modern Synth… Read More

This is part of a continuing series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. In this post Arlin discusses his view of neo-Darwinism and why… Read More

I was checking out the science books in our local bookstore the other day and I came across Evolution 2.0 by Perry Marshall. It was published in 2015 but I don't recall seeing it before.The… Read More

This is part of a continuing series of posts by Arlin Stoltfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. In this post Arlin discusses the role of adaptation and what de… Read More