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March 4th

The Early Days of a Better Nation: Both mutation and selection have dropped radically in the advanced countries. The main mutagen is not radiation but men, specifically older fathers. In developed, and increasingly in developing, countries, few men have children after the age of about 40. Slide of graph showing ages of fatherhood in West Africa, Pakistan, and France: the differences were striking. At the same time, the proportion of babies surviving to adulthood has gone from about half to almost all in a few centuries. Even the disparities in reproductive success between classes has dropped. Hence Jones's surprising claim that human evolution is over, at least for now. Isolation is another factor of evolution that has been drastically reduced. An easy way to track genes is to track surnames: in less than a century the Joneses have spread from being 'behind the electrified fence of the Welsh border' to adjacent areas of England, and can now even be found in London.

December 21st

December 3rd

(Not so) Little Feat: Reunite Gondwanaland: My Husband made me a hat once. A basic white baseball cap I used during field work. He painted a map of a late Devonian Earth on it, and emblazoned it with the slogan, "Reunite Gondwanaland.& quot;

October 30th

Origins: Antarctica: Ideas: Continental Drift: Interactive Animation: Use the animation to see the breakup of Pangaea. Drag the slider through the Earth's geologic time periods to see the breakup through time.

September 12th