another excellent blog to share

The Wild Side is by writer & evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson – it’s her blog in the New York Times. (She also wrote Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: the definitive guide to the evolutionary biology of sex.– a really good book full of great snippets of information about the weird and wonderful ways of […]

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how not to design an experiment

On the Panda’s Thumb today I read a review of a very poor experimental set-up indeed. Apparently demonstrating that beneficial mutations (here, antibiotic resistance) lower the fitness of the organism possessing them, it actually does no such thing because of the multiple flaws in its design. But read the review – the reviewer (ERV) studies virology […]

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