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“tip fog”: the variance that occurs at the present between the true species mean derived from the evolutionary process and what an experimenter records as a value, without being tied to any particular mechanism; applies to characters that are discrete or continuous 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Nature is full of messy variation, which serves as the raw material for evolution. However, in comparative biology this variation is smoothed into averages. Overlooking this variation not only weakens...
TLDR for those of us not in the law‽
But not the uterus (to be fair, it is the most complex organ that changes throughout the menstrual cycle and gestation) #MostComplexOrgan
There was a lot of discussion on Bsky and X about the Hu et al. paper when it came out. Here Deng et al. find that the method used in that paper (Fitcoal) can generate gradual demographic change as sharp drops in population size.
A previously reported bottleneck in human ancestry 900 kya is likely a statistical artifact https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.01.615851v1
It was recently reported that a severe ancient bottleneck occurred around 900 thousand years ago in
In which (I attempt) to explain myself... www.buzzsprout.com/2079636/epis...
As a kid, all Vincent Lynch wanted to do was hang out by the river near his home, fishing and crabbing and playing in the muck. School, by contrast, was a bore. Then he discovered biology—and never lo...
Was thinking the same thing re RAPID, not my area of expertise but this is an amazing opportunity to study how the ecosystem does/not restore
One of the species I had in mind was all those darters, just being washed away....
I also can’t help what it does to the river, how can any living thing not get swept away, what happens to the banks and river bottom? What are the long term consequences of such things? Just wild.
@mikeduncan.bsky.social remind me, was it Field Marshal Radetzky who said something similar to the Italians during the revolutions of 1849‽