![The myriad throng: Human effective population size](/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Economy recapitulates demography? (image source) Iranians count their rials in superunits of the toman, from a Mongol word for ten thousand soldiers. Remarkably, such a…
![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,…