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Blog — Kevin S. Blake, PhD
Scientist + Writer. Essays about science on topics including microbiology, genomics, and evolution.
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The Age of the Earth and La Tour Eiffel — Kevin S. Blake, PhD
Jun 10, 2025 - If the Eiffel Tower were to represent the history of life on Earth, how far down would the history of Homo sapiens begin?
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Evolution under a microscope — Kevin S. Blake, PhD
Nov 5, 2025 - Generations of microbes evolve in hours, not millennia. By speeding up Darwin’s clock, scientists have watched evolution happen in real time, and it’s changed...
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About — Kevin S. Blake, PhD
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Gene Location Matters — Kevin S. Blake, PhD
May 29, 2025 - New research shows that natural selection broadly favors specific chromosomal positions for most gene families.
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