Evolution

We Evolved as Alcoholics

many, is that about 10% of the enzymes in the human liver, including alcohol dehydrogenase, function to ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Apr 17 2009 - 12:21pm

Science vs. Speculation on the Origins of Life

life throughout the universe. One more key point is that the goal here is not to simply speculate about ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 9 2009 - 11:59am

Why Do We Have Ten Fingers?

diameter of one’s palm, then there should be about 9.42 fingers poking out from the circumference of the ...

Article - Mark Changizi - May 17 2010 - 3:19pm

The Indiana Jones Method Of Science

viper-infested sites in a remote corner of Central Asia. These adventures are a pleasure to read about, since, ...

Article - Michael White - Jul 18 2009 - 2:49pm

Darwin Day Book Review: Your Inner Fish, By Neil Shubin

Tiktaalik expedition, filling it in with entertaining anecdotes about how he learned to become ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 20 2009 - 3:13pm

Oceanic Dispersal Drove Blind Snake Evolution

southern supercontinent. The initial split occurred about 155 million years ago as Gondwana divided into ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm

Synapsids Push Evolutionary Origin Of Nocturnality In Mammals Back 100 Million Years

paper on the subject and a curator at The Field Museum. "The scleral ossicles tell us about the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2014 - 8:38pm

No Common Ancestor: How Caffeine Evolved In Coffee

The team created a high-quality draft of the genome of Coffea canephora, which accounts for about 30 ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 1:15pm

“Is Evolution Fast Enough?” How I Responded

mechanism of natural selection leads to the biology. We do know a lot. And we also know a lot about how the ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Oct 16 2009 - 3:38pm

Junk DNA And The Onion Test

"parasites" of the genome that can move about wwithin and be copied independently of the "host" ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Jun 1 2008 - 7:25am