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Monthly Archives: January 2014
BEACON Researchers at Work: Making evolution personal
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas graduate student Laura Crothers. I used to have a little sticker in my office that said I ❤ evolution. “You can’t love evolution,” my co-worker once told … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, evolutionary biology, Evolutionary games, museums, Outreach
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Evolution 101: Group Selection
This week’s Evolution 101 post is by MSU graduate student Thomas LaBar. Many organisms live and interact within groups. Beehives, wolf packs, and bird flocks are just a few of the groups that exist in the natural world. Humans also … Continue reading
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Tagged altruism, animal behavior, Evolution 101, group selection, kin selection
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Creating Life and Worlds: Solving Evolutionary Problems in the Digital World
This blog post was written by students in BEACON’s Fall 2013 Computational Science for Evolutionary Biologists course, taught by MSU faculty Titus Brown and graduate student Randy Olson. Blog post lead author: S. Kevin McCormick, with contributions from Zach Laubach, Nicolas Schmelling, Josephine … Continue reading
Evolution 101: Digital Evolution
This Evolution 101 post is by MSU graduate student Armand Burks. When scientists study the process of evolution in living organisms, two of the key limiting factors are that of time and the amount of data available. In practice, it … Continue reading
Evolution 101: Beauty is in the Genes of the Beholder
This Evolution 101 post is by MSU graduate student Anselmo Pontes. What do you think when you see a woman painfully balancing on sky-high heels? How about when you overhear the lame pick up lines guys come up with to … Continue reading
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Tagged competition, Evolution 101, female choice, sexual selection
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