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29 October, 2018
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I just noticed that an old publication of mine has a typo in the title on the Nature website "Animal mitochondrial DMA recombination", anyone want to guess what the error is? Web of Science has the correct title, Pubmed has the correct title, and it...
Bill Jordan was an evolutionary biologist at the Institute of Zoology in London who tragically passed away in May this year. He worked in many areas of evolutionary genetics but particularly in those relating to adaptation. He was a first-rate scientist, very sharp, very practical....
I hope I'm going to submit my PhD student's first comparative genomics paper very soon. Three of us have written the manuscript collaboratively using Google Docs. GDocs is an online word processor and although I've used it quite a bit before, this is the first...
I've just finished marking a lot of different exam scripts for a several courses. I thought it would be fun to post some of the best quotes from student's answers that have amused/appalled me over the last couple of years. These answers are from Molecular...
I just received promotional information about a new book from Garland Science publishers. "Genome Duplication; concepts, mechanisms, evolution and disease" By Melvin L DePamphilis and Stephen D Bell. Garland Science Oct 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-44206. It sounds like a great title, especially for someone like me...
Last January I made a list of (science) new year resolutions and made some predictions for the coming year. Thought I'd have a look back...
In Britain Top Trumps cards have been favourite games of 5 to 11 year olds for at least 30 years (one of my most traumatic childhood memories is dropping my entire collection while crossing a main road and seeing it become Top Trumps roadkill). I...
I've moved out of my office while falling plaster and cracks in the wall (last years earthquake damage!) are repaired. While packing up I made a decision to see if I could get rid of most of the paper in my office (and not...
Today is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. But hey, you already knew that. All the images going around seem to have Darwin with a big white beard. But lets not forget that his Beagle voyage and much of his scientific work was completed...