Evolution

I liked it. Overall, I think the Discovery Channel did a good job of capturing the painstaking work that goes into scientific research, in this case spanning more than 15 years from discovery to publication. Some other quick thoughts: This was not hype. If ...

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

“Is Evolution Fast Enough?” How I Responded

I receive a lot of inquisitive emails from intelligent laymen, and today I received a nice one that asked, in so many words, “Is natural selection fast enough to explain the complex biology we find in our world?” My knee-jerk response was to say, “Well, of ...

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

Selfing Or Mating? Sex With A Partner Is An Evolutionary Advantage

It takes two to reproductively tango for humans but even when plants (or animals) can self-fertilize their offspring have longer lives when a mate is involved in the process, according to over 100 mini-evolution experiments involving nematode worms (Caeno ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2009 - 12:46pm

Science By PR Blitz

The recent report of a set of fossils of geniune significance for our understanding of human evolution highlights just how scientifically pathetic the PR circus over the primate fossil Darwinius masillae really was. Paleontologist Jørn Hurum, who purchased ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 22 2009 - 3:36pm

Females Choose For Themselves, Not Offspring, Says Study

The great diversity of male sexual traits, ranging from peacock's elaborate train to formidable genitalia of male seed beetles, is the result of female choice, say researchers from Uppsala University, but why do females choose among males? In a new Cu ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2009 - 11:20am

Darwin And The Origin Of Life

When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 150 years ago next month, he avoided conjecture about the origin of life and "To my mind it accords be ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2009 - 11:57am

Mysteries of Human Evolution

A LiveScience article entitled " Top 10 Mysteries of the First Humans " raises several questions of which many are simply the quest for details regarding origins and migrations. However, there were a couple of questions that focused on other ele ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Oct 28 2009 - 3:01pm

Submit Now For Carnival of Evolution!

Get your submissions in for a special, 150th Origin of Species anniversary edition of the Carnival of Evolution, going online November first. I've already received a whole slew of outstanding contributions; submit your writing and it will be in good c ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 29 2009 - 10:59am

An Ancient Burst At Record Distance

Two letters to Nature today burst into data about a gamma-ray burst, GRB 090423. The first is A-ray burst at a redshift of z 8.2 by N. R. T anvir et al. ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Oct 29 2009 - 9:59pm

The winners of the evolution contest

Has evolution selected the best possible features for the species existing nowadays, or has it done a second-hand job with whatever was available? ...

Blog Post - Emmanuelle Savigny - Oct 30 2009 - 4:31am