• Top Research of 2012: Developmental Biology

    Updated: 2012-12-30 09:44:16
    Jump to: Arthropods; Botany; Ecology; Environmental; Evolution; Geology; Historical Geology; Human Evolution; Palaeontology; Zoology. My subjective picks for the top 10 developmental biology papers of the year, with the caveat that I’m not a developmental biologist by trade, just an avid follower of the field, with my main interest being evo devo and phylogenetic inferences [...]

  • Top Research of 2012: Evolution

    Updated: 2012-12-28 18:28:55
    Jump to: Arthropods; Botany; Developmental Biology; Ecology; Environmental; Geology; Historical Geology; Human Evolution; Palaeontology; Zoology. This is a top 10 list of the best evolution-related research of the year. By evolution, I mean evolutionary theory, macro- and microevolution, and analyses of evolutionary phenomena, not “evolution of XYZ” (check other lists if that’s what you’re looking [...]

  • Top Books of 2012: Zoology

    Updated: 2012-12-25 15:49:57
    Jump to another list: Environmental and Climate Change; Evolution; Historical Geology; History of Science; Human Evolution and Anthropology; Palaeontology. These are books about animals. Some are layman-oriented, others are complete academic texts, so your mileage may vary. And with this post, the Top Books of 2012 comes at an end… but the series continues tomorrow [...]

  • Exactly How Do You Collect 12,000 Microbial Samples From a Hospital?

    Updated: 2012-12-17 21:30:14
    Last month I wrote about the Hospital Microbiome project, Jack Gilbert’s ambitious project to catalog the bacterial species growing in the hospital before it opens and monitor how that environment changes after doctors and patients start interacting with it. Over the next two years, he and his team will be collecting more than 12,000 samples [...]

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