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“You modify your surroundings, your social network, your informational diet, your daily routines, and then your modified environment modifies you, every day, whether you think about it or not.”

Take a few minutes to read. This is the next in my series about what we learn from evolutionary biology. Free to read, as always. open.substack.com/pub/profmcin...

Another Friday slow read. Modularity and what it could mean. As always it is free, so please subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/profmcin...

ModularityWhy is everything not an integrated, undifferentiated system?open.substack.com

in case you missed it: profmcinerney.substack.com/p/the-pangen... "The Pangenome Is Not A Parts List"

The Pangenome Is Not a Parts ListThe pangenome is the total genetic repertoire of a group of organisms. It is a property of populations, maintained by evolutionary processes.profmcinerney.substack.com

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Love this quote: "We used to make fun of Edgar Anderson by saying that he was finding hybrids under every bush. Then we realized that even the bushes were hybrids." academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Hybridization and speciation*Abstract. Hybridization has many and varied impacts on the process of speciation. Hybridization may slow or reverse differentiation by allowing gene flow aacademic.oup.com

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