Monthly Archives: September 2011

La Niña on the ‘Nino

Posted on 05/09/2011 by Jon Garvey

Just to say that if anyone’s interested in my dark side I’ve just posted a brand new song on the main page of my website. It started life as a saxophone riff for alto or sopranino, but has ended up with rather a lot of basses and vocals. It has the only set of lyrics I’ve done taken from Wikipedia…

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Tree of life – or just wood chips?

Posted on 03/09/2011 by Jon Garvey

Having been singularly unenthusiastic about Eugene Koonin’s invocation of the infinite multiverse to lessen the odds for the origin of life, I was a lot more impressed by his 2009 overview  of evolutionary theory in the light of genomics. It was a comprehensive, thorough (and therefore rather heavy-going for a non-biologist like me) appraisal of the currently understood mechanisms of evolution and their implications for the Neodarwinian synthesis. His broad conclusion is that the time is near (but not quite at hand) for a new theory: Collectively, the developments in evolutionary genomics and systems biology outlined here seem to suggest that, although at present only isolated elements of a new, … Continue reading →

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