Welcome to the EvolDir
"Evolution Directory"

POPULAR PRESS HEADLINES
 		ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Week: An Evolutionary Twist and a New Role for Drones

A 400,000-year-old femur recovered in Spain shows that human evolution was more complex than previously thought, and a scientific panel warned of rapid, catastrophic effects of global warming.

From the NYTimes News-2013-12-9:20:6:1

Saudi human genome project launched

Up to 100,000 people in Saudi Arabia are to have their genetic codes mapped by 2017.

From the BBC News-2013-12-9:14:6:1

Gene-testing company 'here to stay'

Personal-genetics company 23andMe says it is "not going anywhere", after the Food and Drug Administration ordered it to stop marketing-spit testing kits.

From the BBC News-2013-12-9:8:5:1

More Headlines ...

 The EvolDir is directed toward evolutionary biologists, population biologists and scientists in related areas.

Reminder: the preferred use of EvolDir is for bulletins not discussions (for the latter see the USENET/Google groups).

A Graduate Student Science Policy Leadership Award from the Amer.Soc.Mammalogists invites applications. (Dec 9).

The End of Plagues The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease by J.Rhodes from Palgrave Macmillan (Nov 27).

The Ornaments of Life Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics by T.Fleming and W.Kress, from Univ Chicago Press (Nov 27).

Evolution of Transcriptional enhancers by M.Rubinstein from RoySoc. (Nov 15).

All Royal Society content back to 1665 is FREE online till Nov 30. (Nov 11).

Female competition and agression special issue RoySoc BiolSci. (Nov 11).

Science Visualization Initiative to improve understanding about evolution in our schools request funds. (Nov 11).

Other notices of general interest can go here (including notices that may be commercial).
SELECTED JOURNAL TOC's

Files added in the last three days: 

J_Theoretical_Biology:_3_December.html                     14474 bytes     Dec 10 07:07
Nature_WedDec11.html                                       71327 bytes     Dec 11 14:36
PNAS_TueDec10.html                                        449230 bytes     Dec 10 14:36
Science_WedDec11.html                                     220294 bytes     Dec 11 14:36
Trends_EcolEvol_WedDec11.html                              27285 bytes     Dec 11 14:36

More Journal TOC's ...
SELECTED FORTHCOMING ARTICLES

Articles added in the last three days:

Dec 11 08:00Is ftsH the key to plastid longevity in sacoglossan slugs? - Jan de Vries et al. (GBE)
Dec 9 16:00Evolutionary genomics of epidemic and nonepidemic strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Jeremy R. Dettman, Nicolas Rodrigue, Shawn D. Aaron, Rees Kassen (PNAS)
Dec 9 16:00Evidence for soft bounds in Ubuntu package sizes and mammalian body masses - Marco Gherardi, Salvatore Mandrà, Bruno Bassetti, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino (PNAS)
Dec 9 16:00Genome differentiation of Drosophila melanogaster from a microclimate contrast in Evolution Canyon, Israel - Sariel Hübner et al. (PNAS)
Dec 9 16:00Mutational effects on stability are largely conserved during protein evolution - Orr Ashenberg, L. Ian Gong, Jesse D. Bloom (PNAS)
Dec 9 16:00Genetic mapping of adaptation reveals fitness tradeoffs in Arabidopsis thaliana - Jon Ågren, Christopher G. Oakley, John K. McKay, John T. Lovell, Douglas W. Schemske (PNAS)

More Forthcoming ...

The most recent EvolDir posting is shown here ...

Older messages are shown in the directories given below.

The most recent listing of people and e-mail addresses is here.

Jobs Conferences
PostDocs GradStudentPositions Archive
Other WorkshopsCourses Answers 
last.day               24 KB        Dec 11 08:21
last.day-1             70 KB        Dec 10 08:08
last.day-2             10 KB        Dec  9 16:20
Mnth_Review.pdf       816 KB        Dec  1 00:25
Mnth_Review-1.pdf     745 KB        Nov  1 00:25
Mnth_Review-2.pdf     717 KB        Oct  1 00:25

Please note that if the above information is not displayed correctly, please make sure that you access this website via http://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir.html or via http://evol.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html or via
http://life.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir.html or via http://life.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html.

This site is managed by Brian Golding. If you feel that you have something of interest to other evolutionary biologists please send me e-mail and I will put it on these pages. These pages are for evolutionary biologists (population genetics, and related fields). If there is a message that seems too distant to these purposes, it will be deleted or worse, edited at my discretion to read "the evolution of ...".

General INSTRUCTIONS are available for the EvolDir. It is my policy that commercial notices are not permitted except in the announcement section and at my discretion (send emails with the subject header "EvolDir -for announcement section" to me at Golding@McMaster.CA). SPAM of any sort is not tolerated but some may occassionally, but only temporally, escape me.

Thanks to Prof.Page the EvolDir is also available on Twitter.