Evolution

Paleolithic Genome Reveals Siberian Origins Of Native Americans

about 14,000 years ago, when the first people crossed Beringia into the New World. Our results provide ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2013 - 2:53pm

Rock Paper Scissors- How Biological Mutation Wins

vigilant about defending their territory, and able to out-compete yellow lizards for mates. As an ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 4:24pm

Brains And Brawn: Survival Of The Fittest Often Required Both

than the genome and they can give us more information about what makes us human", says Khaitovich. ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 5:30pm

Instant Speciation, Biodiversity- How Gene Doubling Shapes The World

known at that time about polyploidy, classifying different types of ploidy, discussing ancient ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2014 - 9:59am

Flies Give Another Twist In The Evolving Story Of Heredity

scientists decided we had it all figured out, there were lots of different ideas about how traits are ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 9 2014 - 4:01pm

The Way Architecture Imitates Life, Biology Meets Geometry

better the physics responsible for the shape, one can start to think about other unsolved questions, ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2014 - 5:06pm

The Selfish Gene Is So 1970s- Evolution Is Driven By The Selfish Ribosome, Says Paper

"selfish" it must be the ribosome. That might change everything the public thinks they know about the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 11:51am

Cope’s Rule: Sea Creatures Are Going To Get Bigger- And So Will You

warm-blooded marine animals like whales can only stave off hypothermia if they are more than about a meter ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 19 2015 - 3:43pm

Ken Miller Responds To Massimo Pigliucci (And Vice Versa)

leads to poor thinking, and at the worst it brings about the sort of uncritical acceptance of doctrines ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 2 2009 - 11:01am

W.D. Hamilton, Selfish Herds, And Other Biological Oddities

thought about which the “evolution-as-selfishness” crowd wants you to remain in the dark. You will notice ...

Article - Steve Davis - Mar 30 2009 - 2:54am