Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

National selection

George Williams Dies

Evolutionary biologist George Williams, who died at 83 years of age in 2010, was widely regarded by peers in his field as one of the most influential and incisive evolutionary theorists of the 20th century and advanced the argument that natural selection works at the level of the gene and individual. S. Pelech argues it would be a mistake to believe that natural selection works simply at the level of the gene and individual, but that eusociality plays as much if not a greater role than the individual. The concept of the gene as being the basic unit of natural selection arises from the bigotry of those that hold a strong genopocentric perspective. Read More...