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A team of scientists say it is "beyond reasonable doubt" the Covid pandemic started with infected animals.

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MUN scientists' discovery of 570-million-year-old fossil provides a glimpse of jellyfish history

Two Memorial University earth scientists have discovered a 570-million-year-old fossil that is the planet's earliest known evidence of muscle tissue and offers insight into the history of jellyfish around Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains

It's unclear exactly what species the fossils belong to, but officials say that either way, a discovery like this one helps scientists better understand the history of the land.

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Darwin Mythology Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods, Edited by Kostas Kampourakis, from Cambridge University Press. (Sep 14).

Special Issue of Evolutionary Applications on "Genomic Assessment of Adaptive Potential". Call for contributions. (Sep 10).

The Evolution of Sex Strategies of Males and Females, Kevin Lee Teather, from Oxford University Press. (Sep 7).

Cultural Evolution, Society, Technology, Language, and Religion, edited by Peter J. Richerson and Morten H. Christiansen, from MIT Press. (Aug 31).

In Search of Human Evolution Field Research in Diverse Environments, Author Michael H. Crawford, Oxford University Press. (Aug 24).

Computational Thinking for Life Scientists, by Benny Chor, Amir Rubinstein, from Cambridge University Press. (Aug 17).

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Sep 19 08:00	Structural and Evolutionary Analysis of Proteins Endowed with a Nucleotidyltransferase, or Non-canonical Palm, Catalytic Domain - Rodrigo Jácome (JME)
Sep 18 16:00	Bursts of rapid diversification, dispersals out of southern Africa, and two origins of dioecy punctuate the evolution of Asparagus - (GBE)
Sep 17 16:00	Functional characterization supports multiple evolutionary origins of pheromone receptors in bark beetles - (MBE)
Sep 17 16:00	Genomic Signatures of Domestication in a Fungus Obligately Farmed by Leafcutter Ants - (MBE)
Sep 17 12:00	HaploSweep: detecting and distinguishing recent soft and hard selective sweeps through haplotype structure - (MBE)
Sep 17 12:00	Whole genomes inform genetic rescue strategy for montane red foxes in North America - (MBE)

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recognized seminar series featuring weekly talks by leading experts in
population genetics.

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Winter term schedule:

08.10.24 - Lara Radovic (Vetmeduni, AT)

Y chromosome enlightens the last 1,500 years of horse history.

15.10.24 - Rasmus Nielsen (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US)
Ancestral Recombination Graphs and their use for population genetic
inferences.

22.10.24 - Patrick Tschopp (Univ. of Basel, CH)

Cell fate convergence in the vertebrate skeleton.

29.10.24 - Ann-Marie Waldvogel (Univ. of Cologne, DE)
Understanding ecological impact on genome evolution - from rivers
to deserts.

05.11.24 - Aurelien Tellier (TU Munich, DE)
Inference of past demography and life-history traits from genomic and
epigenomic polymorphism data.

12.11.24 - Nandita Garud (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, US)

Inference of demography and selection from human gut commensal microbiota.

19.11.24 - Ralf Sommer (Max Planck Inst. for Developmental Biology, DE)
What's wrong with evolutionary theory?

26.11.24 - Alexander Suh (Univ. of East Anglia, UK)
Unusual inheritance and evolution of the germline-restricted chromosome
of songbirds.

03.12.24 - Mario dos Reis (Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK) Modeling
the action of natural selection on protein-coding genes.

10.12.24 - Rhonda Snook (Stockholm Univ., SE) Ecological and
evolutionary consequences of reproductive stress in insects.

17.12.24 - Katie Lotterhos (Northeastern Univ., US) Inversions as
concentrators of polygenic architectures.

14.01.25 - Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Inst. For Chemical Ecology,
DE) Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles.

21.01.25 - George Cresswell (St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung, AT) Cancer
Evolution: Basic principles to clinical implications.

28.01.25 - Simon Martin (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Chromosomal
rearrangements and local adaptation: more than meets the eye.

Sincerely,

Carina Baskett

Coordinator, Joint Research Program (SFB)--Polygenic Adaptation
Coordinator, Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics
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carina.baskett@vetmeduni.ac.at

Baskett Carina <Carina.Baskett@vetmeduni.ac.at>

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