Carnival of Evolution #16 - Pleiotropy

Well folks, I'm happy to report that this month has seen the production of one of the best editions of the Carnival of Evolution yet! And this is largely thanks to the determined mind of Bjørn Østman, author of the wonderful Pleiotropy blog.


In fact, you should be reading it now, instead of these words...

Bjørn showed a lot of dedication for this month's edition, spreading the word, calling out for carnival submissions, sending emails, and generally showing an immense enthusiasm for making this Carnival great.

I sincerely hope future hosts will show the same love of the subject as Bjørn has.


Be sure to submit your own writings next month to the Carnival of Evolution #17, which will be hosted by Adaptive Complexity.

Use this form to submit your posts for next month's edition.

*image credit: Filler AG. Homeotic evolution in the Mammalia: Diversification of therian axial seriation and the morphogenetic basis of human origins. PLoS ONE 10(e1019) (2007). Open Access

Carnival of Evolution #15 - Southern Fried Science

This month's CoE edition comes from one of my absolute favorite bloggers, WhySharksMatter over at Southern Fried Science (proof that the South will rise again :).

Read it. Love it.
(and support sharks :)


Be sure to submit your own writings next month to the Carnival of Evolution #16, which will be hosted by Pleiotropy.

Use this form to submit your posts for next month's edition.

Carnival of Evolution #14 - Quintessence of Dust

I will spare you all any more lame excuses for the lateness in posting this link - other than stating that I just moved to a new city (Pittsburgh) and began a new job studying evolution (in Echinoderms!).

Steve Matheson at Quintessence of Dust has put together yet another excellent edition of the CoE. If you have not seen it yet, go check it out.

Carnival of Evolution #13 - FYI:Science!

Okay, so I'm a week late posting the link, but the Carnival of Evolution #13 is now live in technicolored form at FYI:Science!.

Quite a selection of excellent articles is up for your perusal - so go over and get some summer evolutionary reading under your belt!

Be sure to submit your own writings next month to the Carnival of Evolution #14, which will be hosted by Quintessence of Dust.

Use this form to submit your posts for next month's edition.

*image source:Parallel FoxP1 and FoxP2 Expression in Songbird and Human Brain Predicts Functional Interaction via AK's Rambling Thoughts.

Carnival of Evolution #12 - Deep-Sea News

The Carnival of Evolution #12 is now live over at that bastion of oceanic information and enthusiasm, Deep-Sea News, carefully assembled by Kevin Zelnio. From the nitty-gritty details of evolutionary mechanisms to that old chestnut, the never-ending peddling of creationism, Kevin wraps up the last month's worth of excellent evolutionary writing to scratch that itch you know your brain's been feeling since the last edition (despite the lack of nociceptors in your brain).

Be sure to submit your own writings next month to the Carnival of Evolution #13, which will be hosted by FYI: Science!

Use this form to submit your posts for next month's edition.

*image source: Amazon via Living the Scientific Life.

Carnival of Evolution #11 - Oh, For the Love of Science!

The Carnival of Evolution #11 is now live over at Oh, For the Love of Science!, care of the wonderful writer, Allie. Take a stroll with her through the Museum of Natural History as she ponders the ontogeny and phylogeny of life and the implications thereof, all the while pointing you to some of the best evolution writing from the past month.

Be sure to submit your own writings next month to the Carnival of Evolution #12, which will be hosted by the so-famous-he's-infamous Kevin Zelnio at Deep-Sea News.

Use this form to submit your posts for next month's edition.

*image source: Alex Wild / Live Science via The Primate Diaries.

Carnival of Evolution #10 - The Oyster's Garter

I couldn't imagine how Miriam Goldstein of The Oyster's Garter could top her previous hosting of the Carnival of the Blue #21 in which she waxed lyrical and poetic.

However, as I have come to expect from Miriam, she completely knocked the socks off of my expectations with her shiny new edition of the Carnival of Evolution (#10), composing the entire edition as a series of hilarious diary entries.

Excerpt:

"Dear Diary,

Friendly creationists were a bust. First Gravity and Levity refuted creation “science” comprehensively and with citations. Then Adaptive Complexity introduced them to the basic evidence for evolutionary by reviewing the book Why Evolution Is True. When the no-longer-friendly creationists feebly countered with examples of evolutionary frauds, Tangled Up in Blue Guy beat them lightly about the head and neck with the real facts about Haeckel and Piltdown Man and peppered moths and Archaeopteryx.

The sauciest one muttered about half a wing being useless, but Migration demonstrated that half a wing is useful indeed. The final straw was when the Evolving Mind noted that evolution does not inevitably lead to intelligence. They ran away, leaving me alone once more in the internet wilderness."

Be sure to check it out, for it will certainly go down as one of the more creative editions - owing in no small part to the excellent evolutionary writings linked from within. Among those included is my own recent post on the Evolution of Channichthyidae Icefish Blood and Antifreeze.

I guess this just goes to show that Miriam didn't get syndicated by Slate's XX Factor for nothing (just announced by Miriam herself in the Podcast of the Blue #1)!

Next month, Carnival of Evolution #11 will be hosted by Allie of Oh, for the Love of Science!

Use this form to submit your posts for next month's edition.

Carnival of Evolution #9 - Moneduloides

The next edition of the Carnival of Evolution is now live over at Moneduloides!

It's clear that moneduloides put alot of work into this edition, which contains a great amount of commentary on each submission.

So waste no more time here - go check it out now!

Next month, Carnival of Evolution #10 will be hosted by none other than Miriam Goldstein of The Oyster's Garter.

Use this form to submit your posts for next month's edition.

Carnival of Evolution is now on Twitter

For those of you who care to receive updates on current and future Carnival editions, you can now follow it @CarnyEvolution.

Also, be sure to follow @carnivalblue, the Carnival of the Blue, devoted to the marine world.

Carnival of Evolution #8 (Parts One and Two) - Biochemicalsoul

The latest edition, Carnival of Evolution #8, is finally in!! Due to a BlogCarnival.com issue, this edition includes two separate parts: Part One and Part Two.

As the host this go round (over at Biochemicalsoul), I cannot attest to its quality, though I hope you'll find it as enjoyable to read as it was to write.

Oh, what the heck...yes I can..this edition rocks!

Please note that due to the lateness of this edition, the next will be hosted on March 1st at Moneduloides. Use this form to submit your posts.

"Wait a minute!" I hear you say, "that's a month from now!"

Yes, well, after discussion with other bloggers at the amazing ScienceOnline09 conference, I've decided to make this a monthly rather than biweekly carnival. This is intended to increase the number of entries per edition as well as increase the quality.

We need more hosts so pop me an email if your interested in hosting your own edition.
I am committed to making this Carnival succeed!

Carnival of Evolution #8 - Biochemicalsoul (Update)

One thing natural selection is powerless against is selecting for or against anything in an organism post-reproduction. Hence, our bodies are fairly impotent when it comes to fighting cancer (with many exceptions, of course). The mechanisms of evolution are simply blind to most cancers.

It is for this reason that I must delay today's edition of the Carnival of Evolution. My grandfather "Papaw" finally and thankfully ended a long fight with lung cancer thirty minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve. He had just received word that day that the cancer had spread pretty much all over and the prospects for '09 were not looking particularly pleasant.

So, in perfect characteristic fashion, Papaw proceeded to thumb his nose at the potential of an agonizing death by having a heart attack in his sleep.

He will be missed by many.

The next edition, which was due to be published today, will be published as soon as I return from the funeral next week. Much apologies to all contributors. Rest assured - you will all be included.

Carnival of Evolution #7 - Forms Most Beautiful

Well, the stack of final exams are graded and it's time once again (a couple of days late) for you to indulge your selective pressure pleasure in the next Carnival of Evolution. This biweekly installment is hosted by Peter Buckland over at Forms Most Beautiful (by far one of my favorite science blogs - partially because he has an amazingly keen and witty way with words and partially because his blog is sprinkled with posts on Heavy Metal).

The next installment in two weeks will be hosted by me, Irradiatus, over at biochemicalsoul on January 1st. So get your brains and fingers writing about what you enjoy and let the joys and sorrows of another semester melt away. Submit your posts here.

Also, please consider hosting an upcoming edition. If you have already done so before, you can most certainly host again. Quite a few people have begun reading this Blog Carnival, and here's hoping that the exposure will only grow. Just email me at irradiatus [at] biochemicalsoul [dot] com if you'd like to host. We have had quite an impressive list of article contributors (see the side bar to the right), so perhaps it's time that you contributors hosted as well.

Carnival of Evolution #6 - Observations of a Nerd

After a 2 week involuntary hiatus, the Carnival of Evolution is back with a vengeance (okay - so I'm prone to hyperbole). Christie Lynn over at Observations of a Nerd has written the superb 6th edition of the Carnival, filling it with an excellent platter of Darwinian hors d'oeuvres nestled amongst her own highly entertaining prose.

So go check it out.

Next up on December 15th is Peter Buckland over at Forms Most Beautiful (and such a fitting blog title for a CoE host). Submit your evolutionary goodness using this handy form.

Carnival of Evolution #6 - update

Hey folks,

Well it seems that our scheduled host for November 15th is a no show.

So we'll just shift over to the next host, Christie Lynn, the incredibly entertaining and talented science blogger over at Observations of a Nerd.

If you submitted posts to Life Before Death, feel free to resubmit them the Christie using this handy submission tool.