Thanks to Emerald Snow for this commentary. The one thing that united all the talks in this session: human variation makes everything more complicated! This session opened up with a talk by Grazyna Jasienska on breast cancer prevention. She reviewed the...
Many thanks to Michelle Blyth for this. This popular and fascinating subject was begun by an excellent talk by Dr. Alcock, who explained that perhaps our bacterial buddies aren’t always the friendly organisms we make them out to be. Applying evolutionary...
Commentary on Neil Greenspan’s talk from James McNary. This is a great introduction to the topic of somatic evolution. We should all be familiar with genetic heritability but the expansion of mutant clones within an individual organism’s cell...
Many thanks to Brandon Hidaka for a very wakeful synopsis on the SLEEP session! David Samson began this stimulating session with a presentation about how sleep behavior differs between WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) humans and a group of...
