Elon Musk is no stranger to making bold, and borderline laughable, predictions. Here’s how we can put his strange ideas on population decline into broader context. In a recent interview with Joe Rogan ...

There are three major ways by which the rate of genetic drift can be modelled in the simplest type of population: increase in variance of allele frequencies; approach to identity by descent of all ...

Allele frequencies, genotype frequencies, and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium -- Genetic drift and mutation -- Coalescence theory : relating theory to data -- Population subdivision -- Inferring population ...

In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

Microbial ecology is currently undergoing a revolution, with repercussions spreading throughout microbiology, ecology and ecosystem science. The rapid accumulation of molecular data is uncovering vast ...

Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. Located in the Pacific, it lies over 1,900 km east of ...