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Under-the-Radar Human Evolution

Designer babies have been discussed as a possibility for decades. With the recent advancement to genome editing technology referred to as "CRISPR", the discussions about the ethics of have been…

Great Ape Father Figures

29 Oct 201824 Nov 2018

For Evolution https://youtu.be/pYrj-3kMUHw Show notes from this video on YouTube: "At the Senkwekwe Center for mountain gorilla orphans in Congo, a handful of Virunga National Park rangers live around the…

Biology from an Engineering Perspective

22 Oct 201822 Oct 2018

For Evolution Chapter 8 of The Tangled Bank discusses evolutionary adaptations that came about due to different types of mutation. First, if genes are duplicated within a genome, the copies…

Rapid Evolution

For Introduction to Evolution In chapter 6 of The Tangled Bank by Carl Zimmer, we learned that there is a simple equation to describe the rate of evolutionary change: Rate…

Monkeys Carry Astroviruses of “Other Animals”

Submitted by Sydney Jennings This paper is a summary of the article, Non-Human Primates Harbor Diverse Mammalian and Avian Astroviruses Including Those Associated with Human Infections. The purpose of this…

Protecting Picornavirus Genomes from RNAse Degradation within Endosomes

1 Oct 20181 Oct 2018

Submitted by Winter Kemppainen The research article, Picornavirus RNA is protected from cleavage by ribonuclease during virion uncoating and transfer across cellular and model membranes,1 outlines the results from a…

Vesicle-Cloaked Noroviruses

1 Oct 20181 Oct 2018

Submitted by Lyndsi Leprowse The topic of this discussion are Caliciviruses, and this discussion goes into specific detail about that of a certain member of the Caliciviridae family, called Norovirus.…

Dating Older Humans

For Introduction to Evolution - Chapter 3 Amazon Review In chapter 2, we learned about a few important historical figures that contributed to the pre-Darwin field of evolution. William Smith's "map…