Category Archives: Research Blogging

What’s an ecological niche, mummy?

Posted on July 30, 2010 by rpg

I’m sat in a workshop about the ecological niche. One thing we’ve been discussing is what people understand the ecological niche to mean (don’t worry, we discussed more concrete things too). (source) So, here’s a question for you (particularly ecologists), … Continue reading →

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Cough cough choke

Posted on April 18, 2010 by rpg

All of use in central and northern Europe are suffering from the latest Icelandic insult: rather than settling their debts after their banks collapsed, they’ve sent us bits of less-than-prime Icelandic real estate. You can see some in this view … Continue reading →

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More on Branch Lengths and Species

Posted on April 6, 2010 by rpg

Last Monday I wrote about one of those frustrating papers that asks an interesting question, but the more you look at it, the less sure you are of the results. In this case they might be right, but I think … Continue reading →

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Branch Lengths and Species

Posted on March 22, 2010 by rpg

Some creationists have become terribly excited by a recent paper and accompanying New Scientist article. It’ll come as no surprised that they have failed to understand the paper, and I’m confident that explaining the paper in a post won’t help, … Continue reading →

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