Douglas S. Massey1 and Mary C. Waters2,3 1. Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA 2. To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: mcw@wjh.harvard.edu 3. Department of Sociology, Harvard University, 540 William James Hall, 33 … Continue reading
Journal Club
Highlighting recent, timely papers selected by Academy member labs
Category Archives: Statistics
PREVIEW Editorial: Scientific versus Public Debates: A PNAS Case Study
Categories: Editorial | Social Sciences | Statistics
Tagged gun violence, peer review, racial bias, racial profiling, science communication, significance statement
6 Comments
Journal Club: Analysis of bony fishes suggests convergent evolution is more prevalent than previously thought
Habitats and environmental pressures shape a variety of animal morphologies and behaviors over vast evolutionary time scales. These environmental pressures can sometimes produce nearly identical traits, even in completely unrelated lineages. This phenomenon, called convergent evolution, results in modern species that appear very similar despite … Continue reading
Categories: Ecology | Evolution | Journal Club | Statistics
Tagged bony fishes, convergent evolution, habitat, phenotypes, speciation, species
Leave a comment