Dan Jones has a very thorough review of the recent paper in Nature which argues that negative epistasis will emerge out of sexual reproduction and so perpetuate itself. The only thing I'll add is what W.D. Hamilton noted in Narrow Roads of Gene Land, questions of fitness need to be evaluated over the long term, rather than just across a few generations. Also check out the lead author's blog.
Related: Through the rugged roads of gene land.
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If you can only read one thing today, make it Skeptico's answers to Why did the chicken cross the road?
By way of Atrios, we find that Massachusetts is the second safest state for drivers. No, really:
Two weeks ago Julia and I took the road from the cabin to Longville and back and noticed that they had put up a new sign at each end of the curvy, hilly treacherous part, where you drive dangerously high above bogs and wooded kettles with no guard rail and there is one blind curve after another.