Evolution

Sergey Tsokolov: A Brief Life In Science

A few days ago, I was working at home when the phone rang. I answered, and was surprised to hear a soft, accented voice asking for me. It was Lada Tsokolova, calling from Germany, with the sad news that her husband Sergey had just died of cancer.  I was st ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Oct 31 2009 - 11:20am

Natural Selection: Individual Vs Group

In this article I am going to suggest that this arbitrary separation is meaningless.  Much like physics had to come to terms with wave-particle duality, biology must consider the same perspective where the answer depends very much on the question and how i ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 31 2009 - 5:03pm

Carnival Of Evolution, 17th Edition

Welcome to the 17th edition of the Carnival of Evolution. This month, we celebrate not only great evolution blogging around the web, but also some of the best evolution writing of all time. 150 years ago, in November of 1859, The Origin of Species was pub ...

Article - Michael White - Nov 3 2009 - 9:38pm

Neanderthal Genome Teaser

This is a little old, but Thomas Mailund, who writes on of my favorite blogs, has posted a video interview with Svante Pääbo, the scientist leading the neanderthal genome project. At one point Pääbo addresses the question everyone's asking: did humans ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Sep 22 2010 - 10:58pm

The Purpose Of Life

In an earlier article titled What is Life?, I took the reader through a reasoning process to finally arrive at the conclusion that, contrary to general expectation, finding a definition of life is not an overwhelmingly difficult problem at all because lif ...

Article - Steve Davis - Nov 6 2009 - 5:02pm

Altruism In Plants?

The concept of altruism, a selfless concern for the welfare of others, a traditional virtue in many cultures and a core aspect of various religious traditions,  has long been debated in philosophical circles.  More recently, evolutionary biologists have jo ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2009 - 10:05am

Computers And A Philosophy Of Biology

Biology consists of much detailed information regarding genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, and a variety of other components.  This has provided a great deal of insight into how life functions, evolves, and reproduces.  However, there are other rea ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Nov 13 2009 - 1:50pm

How genes blind us with love (and other stories)

As scientific research steps forward, the reasons for our choices, our decisions, our feelings are studied from all sides, to the point where there isn’t much left of our free-will. Why should it be so? So why do our feelings fool us around? Are we actors ...

Blog Post - Emmanuelle Savigny - Aug 16 2010 - 2:15pm

Nature Through The Eyes Of A Genius

Sunday Science Book Club The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin ...

Article - Michael White - Nov 15 2009 - 3:42pm

Putting The Brakes On Evolution Could Help Keep Antibiotics Effective

Drug resistant infectious organisms pose a very serious threat to society, and are perhaps one of the biggest challenges that medical researchers face in their fight to keep people healthy. Despite the trouble that antibiotic resistance has caused for mode ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2009 - 2:13pm