Friday morning, I got back to teaching after my trip this week. So I filled my students in a bit about the Neandertal genome. One of them had been reading the news, and noticed several stories seemed to obsess over the chance that Neandertals would someday...

Daniel Macarthur reports that massive sequencing or mapping projects can often have incidental fallout:Over the last six months I've heard four separate researchers note in presentations or conversations that they have completely abandoned one or more large-scale...

Our work on recent selection was featured in Discover magazine this month. I'll link to that later. In the meantime, I've been getting some thoughtful letters from readers of the article. I thought I would post some of these letters with answers, because they...

Friday morning, I got back to teaching after my trip this week. So I filled my students in a bit about the Neandertal genome. One of them had been reading the news, and noticed several stories seemed to obsess over the chance that Neandertals would someday...

Daniel Macarthur reports that massive sequencing or mapping projects can often have incidental fallout:Over the last six months I've heard four separate researchers note in presentations or conversations that they have completely abandoned one or more large-scale...

Our work on recent selection was featured in Discover magazine this month. I'll link to that later. In the meantime, I've been getting some thoughtful letters from readers of the article. I thought I would post some of these letters with answers, because they...