The Evolution 2008 conference, where academic researchers from all over the world get together to share their latest data and ideas on evolutionary biology, occurred from June 20-24. I gave a short talk on the last day, but was around for the entire conference sitting through lectures, viewing posters, and schmoozing with grad students […]
I have started reading Charles Darwin’s 1871 book Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. Darwin published this book well after he introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. Despite persistent claims to the contrary, Darwin initially dealt very little with […]
A new article (subscription required) in Ecology Letters, a prestigious research journal, outlines an ecological and evolutionary research program on the relatively new area of epigenetic inheritance. Epigenetic refers to traits that are heritable across generations but that are not encoded by DNA. The most common form of epigenetic regulation involves methylation (binding […]