News: Individuality, Evolution, and Dancing Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 13th June 2005 06:40 PM GMT] What is the unit of evolution, the level of life upon which natural selection acts? A geneticist would say the gene; Charles Darwin saw it in the unique populations on the Galapagos. On Friday, Leticia Aviles, associate professor of zoology at the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Boobies Delight and a Sea Lion in Distress Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 12th June 2005 06:58 PM GMT] Today we saw Darwin?s classroom, finally exploring San Cristobal island after days of teasing from the sea lions we pass on the way to the conference center. Early in the morning we packed into open air trucks that took us to a tortoise preserve, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Of Fungi, Santa, and Britney Spears Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 11th June 2005 10:43 AM GMT] It's odd to be on this island that evokes images of Darwin and to hear talks in which 21st century genomics intersects 19th century ideas about naturalselection and evolution. For this reason, Mary Jane West-Eberhard of the Smithsonian Tropical ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A Recurrent Theme Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 11th June 2005 10:41 AM GMT] I just had dinner with a Drosophila geneticist, an historian of science specializing in taxonomy, a paleontologist whose expertise is trilobites, and a developmental biologist who is using sea anemone genome data to map mutants, the opposite of the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Darwin's (and Grants') Finches Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 11th June 2005 10:39 AM GMT] This morning came the talk that everyone had been waiting for - Princeton professors Peter and Rosemary Grant presented their 33-year project on the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos. When they took the stage, the local media ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: World Summit on Evolution : Day One Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 10th June 2005 07:43 AM GMT] The first full day of the World Summit on Evolution: Galapagos 2005, on the island of San Cristobal, opened to a refreshed group of 150 biologists, representing 19 nations, just emerged from a travel-induced stupor. The talks went from the origin of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Miami International Airport Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 9th June 2005 03:39 PM GMT] I am sitting on the floor at Miami International Airport, laptop plugged into a post, scoping out the people waiting at the gate. Who are the other biologists in the crowd? Not the best or worst dressed, but probably the casual few with laptops ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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