Last week I was at Iowa State University as the grad students’ choice of seminar speaker for the fall semester. It seems a good number of the people there have found The Evolution of the Genome useful, which is very rewarding since it was written with graduate students prominently in mind. Anyway, I returned [...]
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I finally checked out the “framing” presentation by Chris Mooney and Matthew Nisbet which is available with PowerPoint slides here. I am not particularly interested in the debate over this issue, but I thought I would give it a try in light of my hope of improving media coverage and public comprehension of science. [...] David Sloan Wilson is Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University in New York and author of Unto Others, Darwin’s Cathedral, and most recently Evolution for Everyone. I confess that I have not yet read the book, though it is near the top of my pile. (Dr. Wilson and I are on [...] Those who read the Wired piece on junk DNA and anti-evolutionism will have noticed that both Francis Collins and I made an appearance (see here for more). It’s pretty clear that our views on genome evolution differ considerably, stemming perhaps from our larger views about how evolution works (see here). It then occurred to [...] The buzz on a few blogs today is the pending release of new books. Sort of the academic blogger equivalent to summer blockbusters, I suppose. In any case, it’s great to see that two of the eagerly anticipated items, Darwinian Detectives by Norman Johnson and The Origins of Genome Architecture by Michael Lynch, will [...] |
T. Ryan Gregory 
I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
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