Exciting news! The ape T2T team just finished the full sequencing of chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean and Sumatran orangutan, and siamang genomes providing new evolutionary insights into previously uncharacterized regions. Check it out: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

new paper with Jeremy Beaulieu nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Renowned #Evolutionary biologist and 2014 Darwin-Wallace medal winner Dolph Schluter has written a perspective titled “Variable success in linking micro and macroevolution” as part of our Special Issue on Adaptive Radiation! Follow the 🧵to find out more: academic.oup.com/evolinnean/adv…

The network of life in the tribe Lilieae sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Question for biogeographers: Is there a degree of circularity in calculating a species' climate niche breadth from distribution data, then seeing if climate niche breadth 'explains' range size?

300,000 native trees to be planted over 250 hectares of Skiddaw theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

pretty cool result: using a new mathematical model, scientists estimate that the ancestral human population shrunk to just 1280 individuals about 900,000 years ago. We almost went extinct, but... science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Fascinating example of convergence: very similar stellate hairs found in isolated species of two different plant families oaj.fupress.net/index.php/webb…

The Netherlands is the hotspot for plant pest introductions in northern Europe

Sorry to read the obituary of David Penny in NatureEcoEvo today but nice to see his 1982 nature paper referenced. nature.com/articles/s4155…

1/ Did you know the genome might have hidden protein-coding genes? In the 25 years since the Human Genome Project, research has been tied to a consensus set of 20,000 protein-coding genes. But the ‘dark genome’ has ‘dark proteins’ lurking in plain sight. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Tomorrow a talk "that challenges traditional views of evolution having a purely tree-like history" will be given The Linnean Society of London by James McInerney, Head of the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour University of Liverpool members.linnean.org/events/6692a69…

Latest from Sophie Jago and Dr James Borrell Kew Science in Trends in Ecology & Evolution "Agrobiodiversity conservation enables sustainable and equitable land sparing" cell.com/trends/ecology…

"Although epigenetic differentiation in nature is likely often a result of drift or selection on stochastic epimutations, there is growing evidence that a significant fraction of it can be stably inherited and could therefore contribute to evolution independently of genetic

A seed excavated from a cave in the Judean desert was germinated. It grew into a tree from the Commiphora family, used to make frankincense and myrrh. This paper says it may be a "lost" source of Judean Balsam that is mentioned often in the Bible but disappeared ~800s AD.

Apparently the ecocide hypothesis for Rapa Nui is not true Time to change our lectures… nature.com/articles/s4158…

"Using biological (genomic) data, we found no evidence that the Rapanui [on Easter Island] underwent a population collapse in the 1600s, originally proposed to be a consequence of deforestation, resource overexploitation and warfare" nature.com/articles/s4158…

I'm recruiting for a PhD position to study the genomic basis of repeated adaptation at the University of Calgary. We have a big multi-species dataset and aim to expand it, with many unexplored avenues to test fundamental theories of evolution yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/9/…

Actually the paper says it is not Judean Balsam (which was fragrant) but a balm used for healing mentioned in Jeremiah 8:11 “is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?”

Scientists have germinated an ancient seed of a (presumed extinct) plant that could be the source of a balm mentioned by the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah: "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" (Jeremiah 8:22) nature.com/articles/s4200…