Editorial

The light of evolution

Miranda Robertson

• Correspondence: Miranda Robertson editorial@jbiol.com

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:10 doi:10.1186/jbiol124

Published: 27 February 2009

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This month, Journal of Biology, like almost everyone else, has some specially commissioned articles to mark the 200^th anniversary of Darwin's birth, although it may not be immediately obvious where the Darwin articles end and our usual review content begins. This is in part a reflection of the admirable strength of our sister BMC journals, from which the subject matter of our minireviews is largely drawn, in evolutionary biology and in genomics; but it is also in large part, of course, a tribute to the pervasiveness of what Paul Harvey [1] calls the Darwinian agenda.