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	<title>Ocellated &#187; Evolution</title>
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		<title>Homozygotes find Jesus, Heterozygotes Play Hopscotch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been extremely busy the last few weeks trying to get everything wrapped by the deadlines that always come with the end of the semester. I just completed working on a paper for Molecular Biology about cystic fibrosis. Before I go any further, let me define just a few genetic concepts using the analogy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2007/05/01/homozygotes-find-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Getting Back in the Swing of Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been too long, hasn&#8217;t it? I&#8217;ve got friends asking me to write again, friends that are hilariously cajoling me into writing again, and absolute nutjobs that leave the craziest comments on old posts. This latter comment is especially hilarious for it&#8217;s illiterate ramblings against evolution, repetition of the belief that no one is required [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2007/03/29/getting-back-in-the-swing-of-things/</link>
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		<title>A Beautiful Controversy on &#8220;Hobbits&#8221; and Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liang Bua 1&#8242;s asymmetrical skull In 2004, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of small hominid which lived on the island of Flores (Indonesia), which they dubbed Homo floresiensis. The media, ever the bastions of scientific truth and accuracy, immediately popularized the discovery by calling H. floresiensis hobbits. Recently however, a debate has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/08/23/a-beautiful-controversy-on-hobbits-and-science/</link>
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		<title>The United States &#8212; Smarter than Turkey.Dumber than Slovenia, Estonia, and Latvia.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study reported by National Geographic News places the U.S. near the very end of a shameful list. Yes, only Turkey rejects evolution more than the United States. The reasons are what you&#8217;d expect &#8212; religion &#8212; but even I was surprised by the low percentage. Only 14% of U.S. adults thought that evolution was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/08/11/the-united-states-smarter-than-turkeydumber-than-slovenia-estonia-and-latvia/</link>
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		<title>Neandertal Genome Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those that haven&#8217;t heard yet, a project to sequence the Neadertal genome has been announced. The company doing it has a very nice press release available with a set of resources on the project. They also have a nice brief background (pdf format) on Neandertals. What I found so amazing about this whole project [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/07/24/neandertal-genome-project/</link>
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		<title>Song of the Dodo Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, which is always a dangerous thing. So what if a bunch of species go extinct? it says. Extinction is a natural process. Darwin himself said so, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/06/17/song-of-the-dodo-review/</link>
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		<title>Komodo Dragons Evolved To Eat Pygmy Elephants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen. It&#8217;s an excellent book. In what I&#8217;m reading now, Quammen spends some time discussing dwarfism and gigantism and the factors that cause it. (It&#8217;s complex, I won&#8217;t try to recap). In one of the most fascinating things I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/05/29/komodo-dragons-evolved-to-eat-pygmy-elephants/</link>
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		<title>The Simpsons Do Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had I been reading the various blogs I usually skim over, I would have known in advance that the Simpsons last night was on evolution. As it turned out, my wife and I walked in the door from a long weekend (she graduated!) and turned on the TV and just happened to notice what the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/05/15/the-simpsons-do-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Evolution of Skin Color</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the great pleasure of reading an article on the evolution of human skin color1. The biological history is an interesting topic, as the color of one&#8217;s skin has profound implications in our cultural and political systems to this day. A look at the general distrubtion of skin color across the earth tells [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/05/05/evolution-of-skin-color/</link>
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		<title>Evolution and Public Relations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m coming to this conversation about two weeks late. But it&#8217;s one that I wanted to hit on. A while back, Randy Olson showed up over at The Loom and left comments on things evolutionary biologists should do to improve communication with the general public. As you may recall, Olson is the maker of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/03/02/evolution-and-public-relations/</link>
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