Purnell, Brown et al

Politics is not really important. It is a minority diversion as it is.
If earthworms, bees, plankton and soil nitrifying bacteria disappeared tomorrow. Then that is a problem you should be really really worried about. Purnell, Brown et al are just some self created diversion of your concern.
Earthworms, bees, plankton and nitrogen fixing bacteria don’t have [...]

Dogs Kill Baby 2: Have We Bred Out The Wolf?

On the 8th February I did a post called Dogs Kill Baby 1. I called it 1 as the news tend to report such things in batches, and today be have Dogs on Rampage. But more important to this site I felt there was more to say.
The standard response when tragically children are mauled or [...]

Gene Pools and Co-evolution

For my own reasons I love Bearded Collies. These are some of  my present influences regarding gene pools and breeds etc. With some additions on evolution and co-evolution of humans and canids. 
Asthma on  Tristan da Cunha
Two articles on how genes for asthma at the start of an island’s colonisation have affected the community today.
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/153/6/1902
http://www.zamel.ca/tristan_article.htm
Cancer in Tasmanian [...]