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Sunday Spinelessness – The first animals (molecular biology)
It’s time to wrap up this series of posts on the origin of animals. If you are just tuning in here, I’ve already decided that early fossils are utterly fascinating but really not much help to us and...
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The Tree of Diversification (or why the March of Progress is wrong)
I’m giving a big talk next week – a departmental seminar. It’s the first time I’ve had more than 15 minutes to talk about my research, so this talk will be a little more discursive that my usual. I...
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Chimps are our closest relatives… but not for all of our genes
Ladies and genetlemen, we have the gorilla genome. You reaction to this news is probably determined by what you do for a living. If you write the headlines for major news services you will convince...
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Testing common ancestry to all modern-day life
That evolution occurs is well resolved. Precisely how evolution occurs, in detail, is less so. One question revolves around if present-day life arose from a single species or more than one. Darwin's...
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Sunday Spinelessness – 5 down…. quite a few to go
I got some good news this week – a paper I’m an author on was accepted for publication pending some minor revisions. That’s great because career advacement in academia rests largely on what we publish,...
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Evolution actually – A tale of two disciplines
I wrote a recent post which touched on adopting approaches from other disciplines, specifically biology, and applying them to language data. It started a long time ago, that we realised language, as...
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