Last night on CBC, the National gave a report on the lack of funds for Genome Canada in the new budget by the Conservative government. My colleague Paul Hebert, who is the head of the massive international DNA barcoding project, was featured. This is just one of many areas in which Canada is [...]
It is with deep regret that I follow Nick Matzke in announcing that Dr. Michael Majerus, an expert on industrial melanism and champion of the peppered moth as a prominent example of natural selection in the wild, has passed away after a short illness.
Dr. Majerus was a professor at Cambridge, and was a dedicated researcher [...]
I must offer an apology for the delay in adding new posts. I have been back from Churchill for some time now, but am still not caught up. With the fall semester approaching, papers to finish, lectures to prepare, and grants to write, I am pretty much swamped these days. But that [...]
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T. Ryan Gregory
I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
Evolutionary theory is totally overthrown. Again.: Sigh. More nonsense from the British press to pile on top of ... http://bit.ly/d2WLoN - posted on 20/03/2010 07:42:09
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The occurrence of any particular beneficial mutation may be very improbable, but natural selection is very effective at causing these individually unlikely improvements to accumulate. Natural selection is an improbability concentrator. — T. Ryan Gregory, Understanding natural selection: essential concepts and common misconceptions