Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Increasing diversity of COVID-19 strains: insights into evolutionary divergence and public health

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 To be clear, I am not a virologist, nor am I a public health expert. But I do know how to analyze patterns of evolutionary diversity. Resea...
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Friday, May 19, 2017

Experimental macroevolution at microscales

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Sometimes I find myself defending the value of microcosms and model organisms for ecological research. Research systems do not always have t...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

The future of community phylogenetics

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Community phylogenetics has received plenty of criticism over the last ten years (e.g. Mayfield and Levine, 2010; Gerhold et al. 2015). Much...
Friday, March 4, 2016

Pulling a fast one: getting unscientific nonsense into scientific journals. (or, how PLOS ONE f*#ked up)

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The basis of all of science is that we can explain the natural world through observation and experiments. Unanswered questions and unsolved ...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Ecology in evolutionary times

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Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on community assembly. 2015. Gary G. Mittelbach, Douglas W. Schemske. Trends in Ecology and Evolu...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

The fruits of our labour: the evolution of crops

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#Guest post by Francesco Janzen. Have you ever wondered how much work and time has been put into producing the food you eat today: that...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Going natural: biological control of insect pests

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*Guest post by Sheena Fry Damage caused by agriculture pests is one of the most important factors of crop yield reduction (Cramer, 1967; ...
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