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Evolution focus in Science Times

Tue, 2007-06-26 11:58 -- John Hawks

This week's NY Times Science section is devoted to evolution, with articles by:

Carl Zimmer, on microbial evolution

John Noble Wilford, on human paleontology

Nicholas Wade, on recent human genetic evolution

Carol Kaesuk Yoon, on evo-devo

An essay by Douglas Erwin, about evo-devo and Darwinism

A video interview with my UW colleague, Sean Carroll

And several other things. I will be reading through these articles over the next several days and providing some annotation and commentary -- I think they are an interesting compilation of recent (and some older) developments in evolutionary science.

Tags: 
paleonews
Darwin
evo-devo

Neandertals

For years, I've worked on their bones. Now I'm working on their genes. Read more about the science studying these ancient people.

Denisova

From a finger bone of an ancient human came the record of a completely unexpected population. My lab is working on the science of the Denisova genome.

Acceleration

The advent of agriculture caused natural selection to speed up greatly in humans. We're uncovering some of the ways that populations have rapidly changed during the last 10,000 years.

Malapa

Just outside Johannesburg, the Malapa site is producing some of the most exciting finds in human evolution. This site is the headquarters of the Malapa Soft Tissue Project.