Greetings–
It’s a short email today. Also, a head’s up that I won’t be sending out a Friday’s Elk next week. I’ll be back in touch in May. Happy Spring!
About nine thousand years ago, gray foxes arrived on California’s Channel Islands. They’ve since evolved into a new species–a tiny animal that’s smaller than a house cat. In my column this week in The New York Times, I write about a new study that peers into their genomes–and finds next to no genetic variation. How they’ve survived with that kind of DNA is a mystery.
TOMORROW–> April 23: Yale. Science & Storytelling Conference. Details here
June 17: Austin, Texas. Public Lecture for the Stephen Jay Gould Award. Details here
June 23-25: Durham North Carolina: International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Plenary Lecture. Here’s the meeting site.
June 29: Boston: Festival of Genomics, Plenary Lecture, “Tales from the genome beat: how journalists explore (& sometimes get lost in) our DNA.” Details here.
July 31: Plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America in Savannah. The talk is entitled, “Plants Are Weird: Epigenetics, Journalism, and the Alien Beauty of Botany”
September 8: University of Nebraska. Lecture: A Journey to the Center of the Brain. Details to come
January 28-29, 2017 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
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Best wishes, Carl
Originally published April 22, 2016. Copyright 2016 Carl Zimmer.