Museums & DNA

Olivia Judson has an interesting column up, Dawn at the Museum. Worth checking out since it talks about DNA extraction from specimens long deceased.

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Olivia Judson (aka, Dr. Tatiana) has a blog at the NYTimes website.
A bit o' squabble has broken out about hopeful monsters.
Olivia Judson has a lovely article about ongoing examples of evolution.
This is my reply to a post by Coturnix called The Hopeless Monster? Not so fast! First, the phylogeny of the discussion.