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Ben&#8217;s talk covered both the theoretical background for how genomes become differentiated and his empirical findings on demographic effects, and on conserved genomics islands of differentiation that are likely mediated by variation across the genome in recombination rates. The computational and analytical approaches required to investigate these patters are very sophisticated, and it was abundantly clear &#8212; both in his talk and in the question period afterwards &#8212; that Ben really, really knows his stuff. 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