linkedin post 2016-10-08 05:20:55

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DARWIN'S EULOGY. "The more I study nature, the more I become impressed […] that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations [acquired through natural selection] transcend in an incomparable degree [those] which the most fertile imagination of the most imaginative man could suggest with unlimited time at his disposal." https://lnkd.in/eykUy37 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-08 05:16:20

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend exploring Darwin's "abominable mystery", the rise of flowering plants (angiosperms). There was no way Darwin could have known the full story: genes had not been discovered then. Their extraordinary diversity of their sexual organs (flowers), seed design, and the genetics driving them is fascinating. I touch on a bigger topic, whole genome duplication, that will be taken up in more detail in coming weeks. View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-09 05:54:04

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FOSSIL RECORD. "Despite extensive technological advances in genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics, which have revolutionized plant research over the past decades, our comprehension of life on earth during such ancient times continues to rely primarily on one data source: the fossil record." https://lnkd.in/e6kp7_K View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-08 06:03:03

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COMMONALITIES. "We identified several commonalities between animals and plants, such as the rapid evolution of sexual organs, the correlation between the rates of sequence and expression evolution, and evidence that tissue functions influence the different divergence rates of gene sequences and expression patterns." https://lnkd.in/e7nzq_s View in LinkedIn
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