The November 30th edition of the London Review of Books has a review by John Whitfield of Burt & Trivers' Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements (which has been on my shelf unread for awhile now). Here's a nice quote:
[R]eading [the book] did help me work out why evolutionary biology is so compelling. It's because it is to biology what maths is to physics: a set of beautiful and powerful intellectual tools that unify and make sense of the facts, revealing both life's strangeness and its logic.
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If you haven't heard, the 2009 Ig Nobels have been given. The Ig Nobels are one of my favorite yearly treats.
2009 ASU-MBL History of Biology Seminar: Theory in the Life Sciences
May 20-27
Application Deadline: January 15, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported earlier this week that the U.S.