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Tag Archives: Biological Evolution
BEACON Researchers at Work: Playing games in evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Jory Schossau. Have you ever played the game Rock, Paper, Scissors? Did you know you were mimicking the same sort of interactions that happen in communities of … Continue reading
Sun, Sand Dollars, and the Huts: My Summer at Friday Harbor Labs
This piece is reposted from the Friday Harbor Laboratories newsletter. by Ceri Weber Expected B.S. in Biology at the University of Washington, June 2013 Undergraduate researcher in the Swalla lab 2012 FHL BEACON/BLINKS/NSF REU Intern I had the wonderful opportunity … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Shampa M. Ghosh. It has been four decades since Thedosius Dobzhansky wrote “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” It soon became a favorite … Continue reading
Evolutionary excursion into the depth of the human psyche?
This post is by MSU postdoc Arend Hintze. Let me tell you about my excursion to the Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) in Berlin. I met the director Ralph Hertwig a while ago interviewing for a job, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Origin of a Species?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Zachary Blount. I love big questions. I tend to walk around, my head in the clouds, questions flitting through my head. I admit that I have walked into … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Genome Libraries
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Peter Enyeart. I love bacteria. That may seem like a strange thing to say, but I really do. When most people think of bacteria, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Why do men and women exist?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Rohan Maddamsetti. In his treatise on love, Symposium, Plato tells a myth of a time when men and women were one. People used to have one head … Continue reading
Goldilocks and the Three Mutators
This blog post is by MSU graduate student Mike Wiser. Many things in life seem to follow the Goldilocks principle: both too much and too little of something can be worse than striking a balance somewhere in between. Goldilocks saw … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Cheaters never win
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Adam Waite. Why do we cooperate? It’s easy enough to understand the benefits of cooperation. When we pay taxes, for example, we are contributing to … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The not-so-inscrutable HIV
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Aditi Gupta. It all started in 1981. A few patients suffering from unusual opportunistic infections, that immune system normally easily takes care of, walked into doctors’ offices and nobody … Continue reading