User:Arlin

I am a biologist with a scientific interest in molecular evolution and a technical interest in the cyberinfrastructure for sharing evolutionary data. If I had to list my greatest scientific accomplishments to date, they would be (3) pulling the rug out from under Gilbert's exon theory of genes, (2) proposing the idea of "constructive neutral evolution" and (1) with Lev Yampolsky, identifying bias in the introduction of variation as a cause of orientation in evolution-- a basic principle causation that is missing from classical population genetics and from neo-Darwinian reasoning. My google scholar profile provides links to literature: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q9fzhu4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao.