Evolution

Interbreeding with Neanderthals

The past months there's been some talk about modern humans interbreeding with Neaderthals ...

Blog Post - Gunnar De Winter - Sep 23 2011 - 5:50am

Is There A 27 Million Year Cycle For Mass Extinction Or Just Coincidence?

spray only fantasized about. Nature can create huge variations in temperature, in radiation from the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 18 2020 - 6:25pm

Evolutionary gems (Nature)

biological processes. In a year in which Darwin is being celebrated amid uncertainty and hostility about his ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Dec 31 2008 - 7:07pm

Darwin Browsing Over Late Afternoon Coffee

this piece at Triple Canopy about Kentucky’s Creation Museum is so good I'm repeating it here, ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 12 2009 - 5:37pm

Discovering Ardi-- my thoughts

rather than an interesting aside. They could have done without the just-so story about pair bonding and ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Oct 12 2009 - 9:28pm

Prospects For Understanding Complexity: A Final Rant

complexity sciences. Perhaps because many complex systems researchers are so excited about focusing in on ...

Article - Michael White - May 22 2010 - 10:59pm

Mutualism's Rule- So Says Olivia Judson At The Wild Side

of this symbiont (which I wrote about here when I was clearly in a whiny kind of mood). And Judson ...

Article - Jonathan Eisen - Apr 9 2008 - 11:08am

Genome 10k Project: Complex Animal Life And How It Has Evolved Over Time

been sequenced, we can learn about how the basic body plans of vertebrates evolved, and emerged and ...

Article - Inside Science - May 2 2015 - 10:00am

I don't BLOG

isn't science.  It's self-evident in most cases. Poems about your cat, for example, are not science ...

Blog Post - Lorena Marie Comeau - Nov 11 2008 - 8:08am

This week's paradigm shift: a single-celled organism can also leave tracks

the Cambrian Explosion. Until about 550 million years ago, there were very few animals leaving trails ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Nov 25 2008 - 1:57pm