Article: Study data from University of Missouri update knowledge of evolution.

Article: Reconciling Strong Stabilizing Selection with the ...
Genetics;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... forms of selection, including stabilizing selection, will eliminate genetic variation. Stabilizing selection in natural populations tends ... variation in the presence of strong stabilizing selection is a persistent problem in evolutionary ...

Article: The Anomalous Effects of Biased Mutation Revisited: Mean-Optimum ...
Genetics;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... quantitative traits is not symmetric about zero. Under stabilizing selection in infinite populations with normally distributed mutant ... on fitness solely through their effect on the trait by stabilizing selection and have no pleiotropic effect on fitness acting through ...

Dictionary definition: stabilizing selection
A Dictionary of Ecology;      290 words ...stabilizing selection( maintenance evolution , normalizing selection ) Natural selection that selects against extremes at either end of the range of ...

Article: Social science. (Letter From the Editors).
W;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...November As any social observer can attest--even an amateur with, say, only a few months of reading Suzy under her belt--there is an endless supply of parvenus striving for entre into high society. It is, after all, human nature to yearn to join the group, to be on the inside. But society's

Article: Quack science.(Letter to the Editor)
Washington Monthly;  June 1, 2002 ;     465 words ...Congratulations on Chris Mooney's expose of the "alternative medicine" story, a set of events unprecedented in medicine, and the greatest challenge to science since 1910. For the first time in a century, political pressures and mystical beliefs reached a critical mass, driving unnecessary research

Article: Weird science.( )(Letter to the editor)
Harper's Magazine;  February 1, 2007 ;     700 words ...In her November review, Hysterical Scientism, Marilynne Robinson argues that eugenics is science as surely as totemism is religion ; therefore Richard Dawkins should own up to the treachery of science. But Robinson is dismissive of the fact that scientists assume error as a function of their

Article: Junk science.(Letter to the Editor)
Pollution Engineering;  September 1, 2003 ;     505 words ...Dear Roy, Your June issue includes a letter from Stephen Schulte who, in reference to the news item "EPA reports childhood asthma rates double" in your April issue, criticizes the EPA for junk science that results in the waste of precious resources to solve non-problems or nuisances. The EPA