Evolution

Regulatory DNA changes have made a huge impact on the evolution of human-specific traits. A study in the latest issue of Nature covers not just the usual stuff, like what has been added in evolution to make us distinctly 'human', but rather what ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 9 2011 - 12:33pm

Skin Color In Teaching Evolution

While any individual action in a zero-tolerance culture will be evidence of endemic racism, the plain fact is actual racism is below any level in history and dropping fast. That makes it possible to again discuss variations in skin color to provide one o ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2011 - 8:33pm

This Is Evolution

We are developing past the merely human stage. We couldn’t stop it if we all really wanted to. Techno-future will be. The transhumanism crowd has understood what evolution is all about while many other intellectuals still grapple with getting their head a ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 24 2011 - 6:24am

Nuclear plant disasters and dangers of nuclear energy use in peace and war.

While my late Professor Dr Neumann was showing me a museum on the outskirt of a German town, the instruments to fight each other were swords. He commented " The most significant progress makind has made is to develop instruments of mass destruction. N ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 25 2011 - 4:17pm

Evolution: Mosquito, House Fly Branched Off 220 Million Years Ago

A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says the mosquito branched off the same evolutionary tree as the house fly around 220 million years ago. Though only a few species of flies gain public attention- pests like house f ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2011 - 11:29am

Evolution Rube Goldberg machine by Purdue

Cool. ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Apr 20 2011 - 6:49pm

Phylogeny- Rice Did Originate In China

Rice, the eponymous food of Asia, originated in China, and domesticated rice may have first appeared as far back as approximately 9,000 years ago in the Yangtze Valley of China. Previous research suggested domesticated rice may have two points of origin, I ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2011 - 9:33am

Horsetails And The Hidden Marriage

As a teenager, in the early 1960s, I developed an interest in botany, and in particular ferns and the so-called “fern-allies”. So, living in the drier South-East of England, I welcomed trips to places where these plants about, such as Wales, mountainous S ...

Article - Robert H Olley - May 9 2011 - 2:32am

"Tragedy Of The Commons"- Aggression In Evolution Could Make Species Extinct?

Aggression in mating males is a successful reproductive strategy for individuals but a numerical model says it can drive a species to extinction, Evolutionary biologists have long debated whether the behavior of the individual is able to influence processe ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2011 - 10:16am

The Peacock Problem

In a recent set of posts there was a discussion about evolutionary psychology and how it can be used to explain various behaviors. However, one of the fundamental challenges raised is whether the references to biological phenomenon are, in fact, settled ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - May 24 2011 - 8:08pm