TWiEVO 32: Never not neutral

Matt joins Nels and Vincent to discuss the neutral theory of evolution and its rejection in light of genome-scale data.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Matt Hahn

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• Hahn Lab
• Molecular Population Genetics by Matt Hahn
• Neutral theoryin light of natural selection (Mol Biol Evol)
• Neutral Sequence Fallacy(Assembly of Fragments)
• Splendor and miseryof adaptation (BMC Biol)
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• Letters readon TWiEVO 32

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