Last week in the blogs
Genetics and genomics
- Evidence that two main bottleneck events shaped modern human genetic diversity (Anthropology.net)
- Double the bottlenecks (John Hawks)
- Sergey Gavrilets on the two fitness landscapes (John Hawks) — interestingly, we just read this chapter for our book club at BiRC last week…
- The medium-rare biosphere (Byte size biology)
Paleontology and ancient DNA
- The Ardipithecus pelvis (John Hawks)
- Darwin, “Ardi” and the African apes (Laelaps)
- What conclusions can we draw from Neanderthal DNA, pt. 1 (A replicated typo)
- What conclusions can we draw from Neanderthal DNA, pt. 2 (A replicated typo)
Programming / computing
- Why desktop multiprocessing has speed limits (Computerworld)
- Google: Computer memory flakier than expected (CNET)
- OpenCL Tutorial: Shared memory kernel optimization (MacResearch)
- Unit testing in Coders at Work (A billion monkeys can’t be wrong)
Research life
- Speaking styles and papers: Academia divided (Expression patterns)
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