EvoDevo

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• Evolution and development of castes in ants

  
  Archetype — Authority: 412
  Up until resuming posting a couple of weeks ago you may had thought I was dead. Well, fear not (nor rejoice just yet). I am now happy to report that those previous months of blogging slowness paid off: I got funding for the project I wrote during the summer. Starting next year I will be working as a postdoc in the ...
  1 week ago

• Chimpanzee and human FOXP2 compared

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 518
  A new paper in Nature (Konopka et al. 2009) reports on microarray expression comparisons of human and chimpanzee-specific versions of FOXP2. The change of two amino acids in the human version has some pretty large consequences for the expression of other genes. An accompanying essay by Martin Dominguez and Pasko ...
  1 week ago

• If evolution is true, why havent mothers evolved extra arms?

  
  Ssnot! — Authority: 125
  Development works like a pattern triggered on and off by various genes. Certain parts of the program code for certain things so things like arms and legs are triggered by limb buds and follow very similar programs. The primary bone is a single bone be it the femur or humerus then a joint and then a lower limb of two ...
  4 weeks ago

• A speaking gene?

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 518
  Im just going to quote from a press release that fell into my inbox. Its about a talk being given at the American Society for Human Genetics meeting by Raymond Clarke , who identified a gene disrupted in a family sharing a disorder of the vocal tract. They call the gene tospeak : The most exciting breakthrough in ...
  4 weeks ago

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