Tag Archives: natural selection

BEACON Researchers at Work: Explain it to me like I'm a four-year-old.

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Sonia Singhal. How do you know that you understand a scientific concept? When you can explain it to a four-year-old. While this is not a … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Measuring natural selection in flowers

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Raffica La Rosa.  Novel traits differ qualitatively from the characters from which they arise, and are generally thought to be adaptive. I study adaptive novel traits by combining … Continue reading →

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Evolution 101: Natural Selection

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s Evolution 101 post is by an interdisciplinary group of BEACONites, all of whom rely on the principles of natural selection in their research: MSU graduate student Nikki Cavalieri (Zoology), MSU postdoc Prakarn Unachak (Evolutionary Computation), and NC A&T … Continue reading →

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