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Never Bet It All
What potatoes, a gambler and your own genome does to survive an unpredictable future
Aug 5
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James McInerney
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July 2026
Niche Construction: selection running in two directions
We make the place where we will evolve
Jul 24
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James McInerney
8
1
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Organs
Why is everything not an integrated, undifferentiated system?
Jul 17
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James McInerney
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Constraints Make Things
Diversity is not constrained by constraint, it happens because of constraint
Jul 8
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James McInerney
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Why Evolution Looks Like a Genius Is At Work
If nobody designed the polar bear, why does it look so much like they did?
Jul 1
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James McInerney
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2
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June 2026
Drift and Luck
In 1968, a Japanese geneticist named Motoo Kimura published a paper that changed how every evolutionary biologist thought about evolution.
Jun 23
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James McInerney
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6
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The Invisible Groundwork
If I visited Earth three billion years ago, I’m pretty sure I would have been disappointed.
Jun 17
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James McInerney
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Good enough
What we have learned from absurd evolution
Jun 9
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James McInerney
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11
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Genomes are models of the world
What machine learning revealed about predictability in a bacterial pangenome
Jun 5
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James McInerney
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5
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Evolution's Downward Ratchet
When a species runs out of time and space
Jun 3
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James McInerney
3
1
May 2026
The biggest mistake I made when writing my book
I did the wrong thing first.
May 22
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James McInerney
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How Animals Play the Odds
Across the living world, hedging your bets is normal
May 13
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James McInerney
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