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Dinosaur Omelettes	30 Jul 2005 04:35 GMT	1
What killed the dinosaurs? Current fashion assigns that to asteroid hits; a la Hollywood. I have always preferred to credit the evolution of placental mammals. The little-understood trait of estrus pushes the female to
Article: 'Fires wiped out' ancient mammals	29 Jul 2005 18:24 GMT	4
'Fires wiped out' ancient mammals By Helen Briggs BBC News science reporter The first humans to arrive in Australia destroyed the pristine landscape,
Tyranny of Adenosine	29 Jul 2005 18:24 GMT	1
This from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/3/26 And though the chemistry is for the most part beyond me, it seems to point in
About hybrids	28 Jul 2005 17:22 GMT	17
Is it true that crossing subspecies will produce fertile offspring, while crossbreeding different species will result in infertile specimens? Is it correct to assume that a fertile hybrid specimen is the result of two subspecies?
Re: Optimal diversification in Avida	28 Jul 2005 17:22 GMT	7
"Perplexed in Peoria" jimmenegay@sbcglobal.net wrote:- > > WA:- > > As someone who does research in both real-world whole organism biology
The shape of inbreeding/outbreeding depression	28 Jul 2005 02:00 GMT	9
I am looking for a published approximation of the relationship between genetic divergence (e.g., between either gametic haploid genomes or parental diploid genomes) and offspring fitness. Clearly this is a very noisy relationship, but what I need is an empirically or theoretically ...
History of genetic elements?	27 Jul 2005 06:55 GMT	14
Is anyone working on a timeline of functional genetic codes? Is it on the horizon? If so or not, perhaps it would be valoable to start a register of theose interested in the basic idea, and another for possible
Speciation News...	27 Jul 2005 06:55 GMT	1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4708459.stm S.
Sun to Adenine to ...	27 Jul 2005 06:55 GMT	2
Step one: sun/uv heat cycle, and dry/wet cycle, and lightning produce hydrogen cyanide found in Miller Urey type experiments. Step two:
?Sites for arXives/e-prints?	26 Jul 2005 17:13 GMT	3
Hi...I usually haunt newsgroups devoted to astronomy and physics. Certain sites like 1) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html and
Paper: Predation on prokaryotes	26 Jul 2005 06:14 GMT	2
Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, 537-546 (2005); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1180 PREDATION ON PROKARYOTES IN THE WATER COLUMN AND ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS Jakob Pernthaler about the author Abstract
Quantification of evolutionary progress	26 Jul 2005 06:14 GMT	3
Hallo, some time ago I published a statistical model that might also be relevant for describing evolutionary time series. To test this idea some sample data would be useful, e.g. how
Inept memory lapse in post about Entropy	26 Jul 2005 06:14 GMT	5
Although it hardly matters, Bekenstein is not the one that Hawking admits to have lost the bet with. It was John Preskill.
Sympatric speciation	26 Jul 2005 06:14 GMT	2
A news article about a Nature study relating to sympatric speciation: ``This process, called "reinforcement", prevents closely related species from interbreeding thus driving them further apart genetically and promoting speciation.
Understanding and Testing TDF (Total Darwinian FItness)	26 Jul 2005 06:14 GMT	6
"Perplexed in Peoria" jimmenegay@sbcglobal.net wrote:- > JM:- > As always, when I read one of your explanations, I come out with more > questions than I started with. Allow me to "recite back" some of the