![Polymorphism I](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
“If you come to any more conclusions about polymorphism, I shd [sic] be very glad to hear the result: it is delightful to have many…
![On polymorphism III: Working with peanuts](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
We’re now ready to ask — and answer — the question: how much polymorphism is to be found in a given population? Remember that ‘polymorphism’…
![On polymorphism II: Hard-drinking fruitflies](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The last post hinted at how useful it is to compare the amount of genetic variation found in one population to that found in another….
![Second Life](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
New Scientist has some intriguing recent stories on particular fronts of research, including a discussion of the search for so-called ‘shadow life‘ — meaning, essentially,…
![What's in a Surename](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
When I was growing up, my family would occasionally get a piece of junk mail inviting us to send off fifty bucks or so for…
![Cloning, Epilogue](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
In an insightful essay (published in an excellent anthology edited by Martha Nussbaum and Cass Sunstein, which also includes other sources cited in this series…
![The new emperor's clones: Obama's refreshing but tepid embrace of reasoned sci/tech policy](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
On 9 March, President Obama issued an executive order to lift hobbling restrictions on embryonic stem cell research imposed by his predecessor, George Bush. In…
![Cloning, part one: The ballad of bill S.812](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Two years before Obama’s executive order to rescind limits on stem cell research, Senator Orrin Hatch introduced bill S.812, the ‘Human Cloning Ban and Stem…
![Cloning, part two: Hearsay, hearsay!](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The trouble started back in December 2002, when the BBC aired a documentary film that openly probed the tenets of a popular sect. The day…
![Cloning, part three: Eve](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The same winter that saw controversy over the BBC documentary on Crispian Hollis’s sect, another claim was foisted on the world by another sect, who…