A CLASH OF CULTURES IN OUR GENES by Carol P. Christ

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

I carry the exact replica of MDNA handed down from mother to daughter since the depths of the last Ice Age 17,000... more

Engineering love

by Brian Earp

Savulescu, J. and Sandberg, A. (2012). Love machine: Engineering lifelong romance. New Scientist, 2864, 28-29.

Essay partially adapted from Earp, B. D., Sandberg, A., and Savulescu, J. (2012). Natural selection, childrearing, and the ethics of marriage (and divorce): Building a case for the neuroenhancement of human relationships. Philosophy & Technology, forthcoming [see "profile" box in article].

Available at the New Scientist website: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428646.200-love-machine-engineering-lifelong-romance.html

New Scientist BIG IDEA section, May 2012.

With break-up and divorce a major part of modern life, it looks... more

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Parallel evolution of auditory system for echolocation in bats and toothed whales

by Robert Murphy

Shen, Y.-y., L. Liang, G.-S. Li, R.W. Murphy, and Y-.p. Zhang. In press. Parallel evolution of auditory system for echolocation in bats and toothed whales. PLoS Genetics

"A Look at the Inference Engine underlying 'Evolutionary Epistemology' Accounts of the Production of Heuristics"

by Philippe Gagnon

Is Religion Natural? "Studies in Science and Theology," Vol. 13. Biennial Yearbook of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology 2011-2012. Dirk Evers, Michael Fuller, Antje Jackelén and Taede A. Smedes (eds.), (Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, 2012), pp. 161-182.

This paper evaluates the claim that it is possible to use nature’s variation in conjunction with retention and... more

Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of Devensian hyaenas from Creswell Crags, England

by Danae Dodge

Dodge, D.R., Bouwman, A., Pettitt, P.B., Brown, T., Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of Devensian hyaenas from Creswell Crags, England. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences DOI: 10.1007/s12520-012-0096-1

Spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) remains have been recovered from British Middle and Upper Pleistocene sites at... more

A Conference Announcement. Atlantiar: Human Traces on the Atlantic Façade of Europe

by Roslyn Frank

In the .pdf you will find the announcement in English for an international conference to be held May 18, 2012, in... more

A Conference Announcement. Atlantiar: Human Traces on the Atlantic Façade of Europe

by Roslyn Frank

In the .pdf you will find the announcement in English for an international conference to be held May 18, 2012, in... more

Tissue sampling methods and standards for vertebrate genomics

by Robert Murphy

Wong, P.B.Y., E.O. Wiley, W.E. Johnson, O.A. Ryder, S.J. O'Brien, D. Haussler, K.-P. Koepfli, M.L. Houck, P. Perelman, G. Mastromonaco, A.C. Bentley, B. Venkatesh, Genome 10K Community of Scientists, Y.-p. Zhang, and R.W. Murphy. In press. Tissue sampling methods and standards for vertebrate genomics. GigaScence.

The recent rise in speed and efficiency of new sequencing technologies have facilitated high-throughput sequencing of... more

Evolutionary significance of epigenetic variation

by Christina Richards

Richards, C.L., K.J.F. Verhoeven & O. Bossdorf. 2012. Evolutionary significance of epigenetic variation. In: Plant Genome Diversity. J.F. Wendel, ed. Springer.

Several chapters in this volume demonstrate how epigenetic work at the molecular level over the last few decades has... more

Darwin´s pigeons and the evolution of columbiforms: recapitulation of ancient genes

by Juan Martínez-Gómez

Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.) 25(3): 719-741.  2009.

To commemorate the sesquicentennial of Charles Darwin´s “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”, we... more

Book Review (Spanish). Evolución: el curso de la vida (M.H. Gallardo)

by Rodrigo Medel

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 84: 593-596.

En general, el libro es una muy buena elección para estudiantes con interés en genética de poblaciones, evolución... more

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