Coevolution Archive
Got milk (alleles)?
27 Comments Published by Greg February 27th, 2007 in Health, Race, Science Essays, Archaeology, Genetics, Evolution, Coevolution, Human Evolution 1001, CommentaryAs you probably know, everyone should drink milk. Lots and lots and lots of milk. All your life. Or so says the American Dairy Industry, often using those sexy posters of famous people with milk smeared on their faces.
The truly amazing thing about those posters is that the people in them […]
Icky Creepy (very cool) Evolution Thing
My friend and grad-school advisor Irv DeVore always mused about the prospect of parasites that control the behavior of their hosts. There is a growing number of examples of these life forms. This is a particularly cool one, Leucochloridium paradoxum. As far as I know this is not a new finding, but it is an excellent new video clip of the phenomenon.