Sorry, I totally got flooded with stuff this week… writing up my weekly blog post tonight!
But before I do so, just came across something while browsing latest Nature stuff (my Wednesday night tradition):
How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together Laland et al. 2010 Nature Reviews Genetics
(check out Table 1 for a quick overview…)
Btw, humanities-related evolution papers are becoming fairly common in Nature Rev Genet and Trends in Ecology & Evolution (hereafter referred to as “TrEE“)
It’s really cool how you not only have several evolutionary systems going on in parallel, but also they interact with each other in both directions! Now that’s getting complicated…and thus, fun! =D
PS: A totally random thing just out today: Apparently people have actually been working on the physics and chemistry behind spiderwebs being so awesome at attracting dew drops…turns out it has to do with the spider silk nanofibre structure (Zheng et al. 2010 Nature).
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Speaking of spider silk nanofibre structure, they use them to make bullet proof vests too, since they diffuse impact very quickly.