Love this quote: "We used to make fun of Edgar Anderson by saying that he was finding hybrids under every bush. Then we realized that even the bushes were hybrids." academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
I'm mostly doing "Slow Reads" over on substack (it's always free), so you might get through a cup of coffee reading this one. Make sure you read to the end. profmcinerney.substack.com/p/good-enough
I took this photo of E. O. Wilson on this day in 2013, when he gave a short talk in Harvard (I was a visitor there for a year). It was a fun evening, though he was clearly in ill health, he was lovely and charismatic.
in case you missed it: profmcinerney.substack.com/p/the-pangen... "The Pangenome Is Not A Parts List"
in case you missed it: profmcinerney.substack.com/p/the-pangen... "The Pangenome Is Not A Parts List"
Abstract. Hybridization has many and varied impacts on the process of speciation. Hybridization may slow or reverse differentiation by allowing gene flow a
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The pangenome is the total genetic repertoire of a group of organisms. It is a property of populations, maintained by evolutionary processes.