Translate Border-Wars
Subscribe to BorderWars via Email
-
Powered by Donation Can.
genetics Archive
-
Lessons from Island Wolves
Posted on December 25, 2011 | 71 CommentsSweeping comparisons between wild animals and domesticated pets are dangerous given the unique and often mutually exclusive conditions in which those two groups often find themselves. Wild animals must hunt […] -
Academic Fraud in Toller Research
Posted on October 15, 2011 | 55 CommentsThe 2011 study A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds is a shoddy piece of work and a disgrace to the scientific method. The world-wide population of Cavalier King Charles […] -
COI: How Many Generations are Enough?
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 23 CommentsIn her published paper, A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds, Claire Wade would have you believe that looking at 4.1 generations of Toller data is enough to get […] -
Pedigree Collapse
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 13 CommentsIt’s common to visualize one’s ancestry as a pyramid with the current individual at the apex descending back across time and generations in an expanding wedge. Every generation has twice the number of […] -
Monitoring the Chatter
Posted on October 5, 2011 | 26 CommentsThere’s nothing more rewarding as a blogger than to have a reader use your blog as a resource to add intelligently to a discussion elsewhere on the Internet. BorderWars reader […]