It is interesting to note that economic concerns, not peer review, resulted in the rejection of genetic determinism. While hard science evidence has been...
[Meyer, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Nov '05] Introduction: In a recent volume of the Vienna Series in a Theoretical Biology (2003), ...
The impact of using a design model or a disease model arises at three stages in the research process. First, the use of the different models impacts how...
From: "warrenbergerson" <warrenbergerson@...> ... I'd rather spend the time learning about where or how genetic determinism is wrong. Is it just a matter...
[Weiss & Sholtis, Evolutionary Anthropology, Nov '03] Occasionally traits arise that appear to be atavistic throwbacks to the remote past. How can this make...
[Gould, Discover Magazine, May '81 ] Essay: Kirtley Mather, who died last year at age ninety, was a pillar of both science and Christian religion in America...
From: "warrenbergerson" <warrenbergerson@...> Subject: [evomech] Re: Peer Review and Genetic Determinism ... Is there a biological question here? I don't...
Contents: 1) Researchers evolve a complex genetic trait in the laboratory (Press Release) Duke University biologists have evolved a complex trait in the ...
Here is a copy of the paper. Palash From: "John Latter" <jorolat@...> Reply-To: evomech@yahoogroups.com To: evomech@yahoogroups.com Subject: [evomech]...
Thank you for your kindness Palash :) Unfortunately, however, the paper you attached is "*Evolution of the Gene Network Underlying Wing Polyphenism in Ants*"*...
Sorry about that John. I am sending the relevant one again just in case.. Palash From: John Latter <jorolat@...> Reply-To: evomech@yahoogroups.com To:...
That one arrived OK Palash and it'll make it easier for other members - thank you! John Palash Bhattacharya wrote: Sorry about that John. I am sending the...
[Richardson et al., Evolution & Development, Jan '04] Summary: There is an active debate about how skeletal elements are encoded along the proximodistal (PD)...
[Siebert, New York Times, Jan '06] Extract: ... Anderson and Mather's resulting 1993 paper in the Journal ofComparative Psychology, entitled "Personalities of...
[Nijhout, Developmental Biology, Sept '03] Abstract: Control mechanisms that regulate body size and tissue size have beensought at both the cellular and...
No doubt a lot of details are being learned about ontogeny and its regulation, but something's lacking in the general concept, namely, what it is that is being...
... being learned about ontogeny ... I feel some consideration should also be given to exactly 'what' is doing the regulating! For example, in the press...
From: "John Latter" <jorolat@...> Subject: Re: [evomech] The control of body size in insects (Dev Biol) ... Regulation is the important thing, it's what...
[Alon, Science, Sept '03] Viewpoint Abstract: This viewpoint comments on recent advances in understanding the design principles of biological networks. It...
Contents: 1) Molecular Evolution (News Item) Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering have uncovered...
... I think I've said before that I have quite a strong interest in the 'psychology' of evolutionary theory. I might also have said this before too (so stop me...
[Mller & Newman, Journal of Experimental Zoology, MDE 304 '05] Abstract: This article introduces a special issue on evolutionary innovation and morphological...
This article's "distinction between ADAPTATION vs NOVELTY" seems parallel to what I mentioned a few days ago, distinction between regulation and that which is...
As should be obvious, once you reject genetic determinism, you are also forced to rethink your definition of biological evolution. If genetic determinism is...
[McElheny, The Scientist, Feb '06] Five years after publication of two drafts of the human genome, Maynard Olson of the University of Washington finds himself...
Evolution means change. One possible alternative to `biological evolution is genetic change or genetic change in populations' is thus `biological evolution is...
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