NeilUnreal

Kathy Parker is a great individual. She was on my roomate's dissertation committee, and she may have been his major professor (memory fails me). Al Parker (her husband) is one of the people whose research first attracted me to that dept.

-Neil

Nic Tamzek

Hey guys,

Thanks a bunch for the info! Kathy Parker actually ran a session at the AAG meeting two years ago on spatial analysis and genetics. Sounds like she's getting more into it...

Maybe you'll be seeing me over on that side of the country next year.

PS: Plus, you guys have all them Sarracenia over there. I'm dying to get a close look at S. psittacina, a pitcher that keeps trapping critters even when submerged. Highly relevant analog for certain difficult evolutionary questions...

Nick

NZAmoeba

Not too long ago I watched a doco on tv about how Neandertals and modern humans were like lions and tigers, close, but not the same.

But near the end, when they were talking about inter-breeding, one of the scientists showed a picture that convinced me it was true. He showed a picture of his father, who was a short, stocky man, with a very low forehead and bumpy eyebrows maybe a recessive Neandertal gene lives in all of us...