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What keeps the red queen running?
AI-generated definition based on ‘Quantitative and analytical tools to analyze the spatiotemporal population dynamics of microbial consortia’, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, August 2022: The Red Queen hypothesis refers to the idea that a constant rate of extinction persists in a … Continue reading
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Tagged continual turnover, evolutionary biology, PRX Life, red queen hypothesis, species extinction, Stanford University
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The WHA coronavirus resolution is not great for science
On May 19, member states of the WHO moved a vote in the World Health Assembly (WHA), asking for an independent investigation into the sources of the novel coronavirus. Their exact demands were spelled out in a draft resolution that … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus lab origin hypothesis, COVID-19, Donald Trump, evolutionary biology, furin, Harsh Vardhan, Nitin Gadkari, novel coronavirus, principle of correspondence, SARS-CoV-2, sufficient cause, sufficient condition, WHO, World Health Assembly, World Health Organization, zoonotic spillover
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Who is a science writer?
August 28 was Orientation Day at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University, where I’ve enrolled with the Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) for the 2014 fall term. It was an exciting day for many reasons. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Fagin, evolutionary biology, human intervention, pine cones, science communication
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