Entries from 2015-11-01 to 1 month

genetic drift & genome architecture

Sarkar S 2015 The genomic challenge to adaptationism. Brit J Phil Sci 66:505-536. the term 'adaptation' can be used to refer to a process (of adaptation), to a state of affairs (for instance, a state of adaptation to some environment), or …

genetic drift & genome architecture

Koonin EV 2009 Darwinian evolution in the light of genomics. Nucl Acids Res 37:1011-1034. Kimura and others realized that mutations that were (nearly) neutral at the time of fixation were not indifferent to evolution such mutations compris…