James McInerney
Professor of Evolutionary Biology. Writing about evolution, hedging, and why life is harder to kill than we think. Book forthcoming from Harvard University Press, 2027.
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Genomes are models of the world
In Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould asked what would happen if you could rewind the tape of evolution and let it run again (Gould, 1989). His answer was that you would get something different every time. The history of life was driven by s...
Evolution's Downward Ratchet
Something we don’t talk about very often is the fact that a species doesn’t usually die out because it is incapable of adapting. It dies out because it runs out of time.
Now, this for sure sounds like a paradox because evolution is suppose...
The biggest mistake I made when writing my book
I researched my book every day, and I wrote nothing. It was a mistake.
In mid-2018 I was contracted by Harvard University Press to write a book about evolutionary biology. I met Janice, my soon-to-be-editor, one sunny summer’s day in Notti...
How Animals Play the Odds
No songbird checks the ten-day forecast before laying eggs. No desert seed studies rainfall maps. Yet across the living world, organisms place beautifully calibrated wagers against environmental chaos, and the underlying logic turns out to...
Why Life Never Goes All-In
Imagine you are a bacterium. You might live in a gut, a clump of soil, or down a hospital drain. Life is good, or at least survivable…right up until the antibiotics arrive.
Most of your relatives die and indeed you might too, but a small f...
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Hello Substack. I will be writing about evolution, bet-hedging, and why life is harder to kill than we think. Mostly cheerful.
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