Photo by Kate Ter Haar.

• This week at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Why evolutionary biologists should be excited about the pot genome.
• And at The Molecular Ecologist: Molecular Ecology‘s top reviewers for 2014 and my review of A Troublesome Inheritance.
• Because why wouldn’t you? Figuring out how many habitable planets you can have in the same solar system.
• I take my landfills black, thanks. You can test for groundwater contamination from a landfill by looking for artificial sweeteners.
• Hmm. A lot of Americans who tell pollsters they don’t “believe” in evolution understand how it works anyway.
• There’s a Methods section for that. No, you shouldn’t have to ask scientists to explain their methods before you try to replicate their results.
• Because of course? The brains of gay men who are parents look like straight mothers and straight fathers in a functional MRI scan.
• Sneaky! This fish glows in a color that it’s predators can’t see.
• I’m choosing to believe that I did, anyway. Did humans evolve bigger brains at the expense of muscle power?

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