Year: 2022

DISCONNECT. “In species with long-term conserved broad-scale recombination landscapes, such as birds, the replication of accentuated differentiation may therefore not be informative regarding a genomic region's involvement in adaptation or speciation, nor indicative of parallel ecology-related evolution.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.14167/full View in LinkedIn

ADDITIONAL FACTOR. “To further complicate the issue, demographic effects can act to enhance or counter the effects of linked selection.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.14167/full View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this one weekend sojourn into linked selection and demography as a window into what some modern ecologists are thinking about; Darwin’s theory of evolution is hereby combined with molecular genetics, and the mechanisms and consequences of natural selection are explored. Considering that the modern concept of the gene did not exist in Darwin’s day, this footnoting of his theory is all the more extraordinary. View in LinkedIn

A MUST READ: this is a superb, lucid and informative article with stunning graphics on the meaning of infectivity rates in different viral diseases. Rarely is it so well articulated. https://lnkd.in/deDFGUR View in LinkedIn

OLIVE TREE BLIGHT. A couple of years ago I contacted a Texas researcher who had identified a phage specific for the olive blight, but was brushed aside. Since then nothing has happened. It could solve the olive blight problem. Equally, quorum sensing bacterial pheromones would be a promising approach. Are the agriculture science advisors asleep? https://www.ecowatch.com/olive-trees-disease-europe-2645714129.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3 View in LinkedIn

BLUE BRAIN PROJECT at Swizerland's EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) was launched in 2005 and aims to reverse engineer the mammalian brain from laboratory data.” https://lnkd.in/dQEQUkh View in LinkedIn

MARKRAM’S BLUE BRAIN. “Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat brain. “You need one laptop to do all the calculations for one neuron. So you need ten thousand laptops." Instead, he uses an IBM Blue Gene machine with 10,000 processors." https://lnkd.in/dQEQUkh View in LinkedIn

THE HUMAN BRAIN. “It was so successful an evolution from mouse to man it expanded about a thousand fold in terms of the numbers of units to produce this almost frightening organ." https://lnkd.in/dQEQUkh View in LinkedIn

THIS ALMOST FRIGHTENING ORGAN. Brain evolution continues. "It is evolving at an enormous speed." https://lnkd.in/dQEQUkh View in LinkedIn

€1 BILLION "Human Brain Project: Henry Markram plans to spend €1bn building a perfect model of the human brain. "It's going to be the Higgs boson of the brain, a Noah's archive of the mind." thanks to the largesse of the European Union, which awarded Markram €1bn last year to make his dream a reality, many of those naysayers are being forced to take him seriously." https://lnkd.in/dqsuPBB View in LinkedIn