The 39th annual meeting of the Population Genetics Group was held last December in the beautiful but blustery parkland of Heriot-Watt University, west of Scotland’s capital city. It was hosted by he School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and was organised by Deborah and Brian Charlesworth. Pop Group has always been an informal meeting, bringing together scientists working on population genetics and evolutionary biology, and over the years, the mainland European visitors have made up a growing proportion of the attendees (this year, 40%), with a small number of scientists travelling from outside Europe (8%). Furthermore, the meeting is increasingly appealing to an audience of molecular evolutionary biologists and genome analysts.

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